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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

US #trans #queer and other marginalized people who might be looking for migration options and might have a connection to Canada:

Until a few weeks ago, Canada had a single generation rule for citizenship, meaning you could only inherit from your parents. The supreme court found this was unconstitutional some time ago and in December, legislation fixed the gap. It's now possible to go as far back as you can, as long as you can show, with documentation, that your ascendents were citizens of Canada.

This is a simplified update and you can search to learn more, but if you are looking for a way out of the US and have a grandparent or beyond that was a citizen but hadn't believed it was possible, then you should be made aware of this news.

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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana
@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

Now, if only I was better at #genealogy, I might be able to connect it to my great grandparents and their parents who I've been told were French Canadian citizens and had a French surname that I know and have seen in a US marriage license. But I don't know what to do beyond basic Ancestry.com stuff.

C'est la vie.

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@ada@blahaj.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw So, if you're serious about looking in to it, a paid ancestry account is a good way to start. Fill in as much detail as you know in your tree, including parents names, grandparents names, great grandparents names etc. If you can find matching ancestry records for any of those, you're off to a good start, because the next thing that will happen, is ancestry will start making recommendations to you based off of other trees that use that same record. It can take a day for the suggestions to come in once you link a new record, but it's worth waiting.

There's also wiki tree, which is basically a public, crowd sourced "world tree" trying to create a unified, shared family tree. There's a good chance your parents aren't in it, probably a 50/50 chance of your grand parents being in it, but a very good chance your great grandparents are already there. It's just a matter of finding them. And if you can find them, you can find their records.

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