{"id":10704,"date":"2026-09-08T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/09\/08\/you-have-two-canadian-ancestors-just-picking-the-closer-one-could-cost-you-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:40:20","slug":"you-have-two-canadian-ancestors-just-picking-the-closer-one-could-cost-you-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/you-have-two-canadian-ancestors-just-picking-the-closer-one-could-cost-you-years\/","title":{"rendered":"You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSay your mother\u2019s mother was born in Quebec. Say your father\u2019s father\u2019s father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks the grandmother. The logic looks sound\u2014fewer names, fewer records, fewer places for the paperwork to break. You want the short version of a long project. Three<br \/>\nThe post You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Say your mother\u2019s mother was born in Quebec. Say your father\u2019s father\u2019s father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks the grandmother. The logic looks sound\u2014fewer names, fewer records, fewer places for the paperwork to break. You want the short version of a long project. Three [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/09\/you-have-two-canadian-ancestors-just-picking-the-closer-one-could-cost-you-years-0980128.html\">You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/09\/you-have-two-canadian-ancestors-just-picking-the-closer-one-could-cost-you-years-0980128.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSay your mother\u2019s mother was born in Quebec. Say your father\u2019s father\u2019s father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks the grandmother. The logic looks sound\u2014fewer names, fewer records, fewer places for the paperwork to break. You want the short version of a long project. Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}