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Tracing Canadian citizenship by descent? Ancestry just added 570,000 Quebec obituaries, one of which could unlock your claim

It scrapped the first-generation limit, which had […] The post Tracing Canadian citizenship by descent? Ancestry just added 570,000 Quebec obituaries, one of which could unlock your claim first appeared on CIC News.

Tracing Canadian citizenship by descent? Ancestry just added 570,000 Quebec obituaries, one of which could unlock your claim

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For Americans with French-Canadian roots, this could matter.

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It scrapped the first-generation limit, which had […] The post Tracing Canadian citizenship by descent? Ancestry just added 570,000 Quebec obituaries, one of which could unlock your claim first appeared on CIC News. For Americans with French-Canadian roots, this could matter.

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For Americans with French-Canadian roots, this could matter. In December 2025, Bill C-3 changed Canada's citizenship law.

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