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  • You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years
  • Does your ancestry make you an American-Canadian dual citizen today? A new free tool checks your family line and lists t
  • Hit a wall in your records search for Canadian citizenship by descent? These 5 tools can help you trace your ancestors

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years

Say your mother’s mother was born in Quebec. Say your father’s father’s father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks th...

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cicnews.com /2 weeks ago

Does your ancestry make you an American-Canadian dual citizen today? A new free tool checks your family line and lists t...

Canada’s citizenship department had about 136,000 proof-of-citizenship applications awaiting a decision in September 2026. Among the source countries, the U.S. was by far the large...

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cicnews.com /1 week ago

Hit a wall in your records search for Canadian citizenship by descent? These 5 tools can help you trace your ancestors

Since December 15, 2025, a Canadian ancestor, any number of generations back, can make you a Canadian citizen by descent if you were born before that date. To confirm it, you apply...

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cicnews.com /1 week ago

Was your ancestor from a US border town? A common historical practice could make you a Canadian citizen today

Along the St. Croix River in Maine lies the border city of Calais, just a six-minute drive from St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Though separated by an international border, the two com...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Tens of thousands of Canadians once lived in Buffalo. If one was your ancestor, you may have a claim to Canadian citizen...

In 1900, 17,242 people living in Buffalo had reported being born in Canada. That was one in every 20 residents of the city, according to the U.S. Census Office’s own tables. Canadi...

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cicnews.com /3 weeks ago

1867 is not a cut-off year for your Canadian citizenship by descent claim

Your great-great-grandmother was born in Canada East in 1850. Canada didn’t become a country until 1867, so she arrived seventeen years too early, and you assume her citizenship cl...

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cicnews.com /3 weeks ago

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

Genealogy company Ancestry has added an index of 570,090 Quebec obituaries from the Drouin Institute to its website. The records come from obituaries published in Quebec newspapers...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Americans whose Canadian ancestors died before 1947 may still have a citizenship by descent claim

Canadian citizenship did not exist as a legal status until January 1, 1947. Before that date, people born in Canada held the status of British subject. If the ancestor your claim r...

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cicnews.com /2 weeks ago

Did your Canadian-born ancestor become American? The government’s own training example says you may have a claim to Cana...

If your grandparent was born in Canada and later became an American, you may be a Canadian citizen by descent. You may have been one since the day you were born. Canada’s immigrati...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

A Canadian law quietly turned generations of upstate New Yorkers into dual citizens

In Clinton County, New York, 6,988 residents told the U.S. Census Bureau they have Canadian or French Canadian ancestry. The county holds 78,493 people, working out to one in every...

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cicnews.com /4 weeks ago

More than 100,000 British children were sent to Canada from 1869 to the 1930s. If one is your ancestor, you may be Canad...

Between 1869 and the late 1930s, British agencies sent more than 100,000 children to Canada. That’s the count from Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The UK’s National Archives, co...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Can American records prove Canadian citizenship by descent?

A death certificate from Michigan can name your great-grandmother’s birthplace as Ontario. On its own, it won’t establish that she held Canadian citizenship. American records do re...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Canadian citizenship by descent may reach deeper into your American family than you’d guess

Somewhere back in your family, there’s a Canadian. A great-grandmother born in Quebec, or a great-grandfather who worked in New Brunswick before the family moved south. You know th...

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cicnews.com /2 days ago

How a relative’s succsesful Canadian citizenship by descent application can unlock your whole family’s claims

A relative who shares your Canadian ancestry and has confirmed their citizenship through a successful citizenship by descent application can give your own citizenship by descent ap...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Your grandmother was once excluded from Canadian citizenship. You may still qualify as a citizen today

There was a time when a Canadian-born woman who married a foreign national was cut out of her citizenship status. This means that, if you have a Canadian-born grandmother, great-gr...

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cicnews.com /4 days ago

If your family is from Manchester, NH, you may already be an American-Canadian dual citizen

In Manchester, New Hampshire, a combined 11.5% of residents report Canadian or French-Canadian ancestry, according to census figures for 2020 to 2024*. The real number is likely hi...

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cicnews.com /2 weeks ago

Do you need two documents to prove your ancestor was Canadian in a citizenship by descent claim? Not necessarily

How many records about your anchor ancestor* do you need to prove your claim to Canadian citizenship by descent? The answer depends on the records that exist for that ancestor and...

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cicnews.com /1 week ago

American with Canadian ancestry? You may have a second Thanksgiving to celebrate

On Monday, October 12, Canadians will sit down to turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Most Americans will do the same six weeks later, on November 26. In most US households, the Cana...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Stronger Canada-EU ties could open new doors. Millions of Americans with Canadian ancestry stand to gain too

Over the course of this week, the relationship between Canada and the European Union took an unprecedented leap forward. On September 12, the Wall Street Journal broke the news tha...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

Having a Canadian ancestor is just the start: Five questions a lawyer will ask about your family line

You just found out you’re likely a Canadian citizen by descent, through a parent, grandparent, or an ancestor further back. Many people in this position turn to a licensed immigrat...

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cicnews.com /1 month ago

One section of Canadian law decides whether you can claim citizenship by descent, and this is how to read it

Every Canadian citizenship by descent claim comes down to the same test, applied over and over. Citizenship by descent is the rule that lets Canadian citizenship pass from parent t...

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cicnews.com /3 days ago

Canada is updating its immigration system. But for Americans with Canadian ancestry, citizenship has never been more dir...

On October 16, Canada announced major upcoming changes to Express Entry, the online system it uses to select skilled workers for permanent residence. For Americans who have ever we...

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cicnews.com /6 days ago

How an immigration officer decides whether your family tree proves you’re a Canadian citizen by descent

If your claim to Canadian citizenship runs through a grandparent, great-grandparent, or older relative, an immigration officer has to follow it one generation at a time. For each p...

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