We already had much of the family archives gathered for genealogical research done. There was a (mostly unknown) great grandfather that we didn’t track down. We just knew he was from canada, fathered one of the ancestors and bailed back to Saskatchewan.
Turns out he’s now findable online (new records were added) and he’s multi generational Canadian. The birth certificate has been ordered. The process might take a while, but we’re filing the day his records show up in our mailbox.
Now we just need Canada to join the EU somehow and all of the stars will align.
Oh, he’s on my grandmother’s birth certificate. I’ve got a complete and solid chain of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, places and dates of births, the whole thing.
I even have his Canadian draft papers from WWI.
It’s basically as clean of a history as you can get when it’s back to the late 1800’s.
Sounds open and shut. If you haven’t already, put together all the paperwork you intend on submitting, minus the one you are waiting for. They want color (sorry, colour) copies of the certified copies. Yes, you read that right; do no send the actual certified copies; make color copies of them, as nothing will be returned to you.
There is evidence that you can file now with what you have (the online copies of your great grandfather’s birth record), and amend them online to the application once you receive them. That’s what I did. Certified copies all the way up the chain until the Canadian ancestor himself, for whom I submitted a simple print out (not certified) of his birth/baptism record. I’ve since received the certified copy from Quebec, which I’ll upload as soon as the application appears accepted and online.
We already had much of the family archives gathered for genealogical research done. There was a (mostly unknown) great grandfather that we didn’t track down. We just knew he was from canada, fathered one of the ancestors and bailed back to Saskatchewan.
Turns out he’s now findable online (new records were added) and he’s multi generational Canadian. The birth certificate has been ordered. The process might take a while, but we’re filing the day his records show up in our mailbox.
Now we just need Canada to join the EU somehow and all of the stars will align.
Do you have any paper proof of the connection your Canadian Lothario had with his US born offspring? That’s likely a sticking point if you do not.
Oh, he’s on my grandmother’s birth certificate. I’ve got a complete and solid chain of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, places and dates of births, the whole thing.
I even have his Canadian draft papers from WWI.
It’s basically as clean of a history as you can get when it’s back to the late 1800’s.
Sounds open and shut. If you haven’t already, put together all the paperwork you intend on submitting, minus the one you are waiting for. They want color (sorry, colour) copies of the certified copies. Yes, you read that right; do no send the actual certified copies; make color copies of them, as nothing will be returned to you.
There is evidence that you can file now with what you have (the online copies of your great grandfather’s birth record), and amend them online to the application once you receive them. That’s what I did. Certified copies all the way up the chain until the Canadian ancestor himself, for whom I submitted a simple print out (not certified) of his birth/baptism record. I’ve since received the certified copy from Quebec, which I’ll upload as soon as the application appears accepted and online.
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