u/Alternative-Rule-547

Hello,

Slowly learning French, please forgive the English. My father was French (Algeria pre independence), moved to Country A when he was a teen, moved back to France mid 80s with my oldest sibling & mother, I believe he was a post man(?) at the time as part of civil service. Mother had a hard time adapting/learning language wanted back to Country A.
Father eventually leaves Country A to go to Country B. Amongst all of the moves he lost his French passport & never renewed it. I suspect because he didn't have much other French paperwork on him/figured his chances of going back were slim.

Fast forward, he has passed away and I am digging through his papers & found his original CNF as well as a copy of his family book with his parents & grand parents information & I am inspired to look more into citizenship again (he always made it seem like it was impossible without a passport/pain to deal with overseas embassies etc).

I have put in a request from the Etat Civil des affaires Etrangères for his birth certificate as well as a request for my oldest sibling to see if it was registered when they moved there. That being said, if my oldest sibling isn't recorded, how do I prove my father was back there at some point? The census records for a town being sealed for X amount of time or would the person looking into my parentage look up to see when was last contact with France was? If it means anything my uncle manages to go back every other year or so/plans on eventually retiring in Paris so most likely his passport has been maintained.

I think the 50 yr rule is completely fair but I also know time is ever moving forward and I am kicking myself for not digging deeper earlier. Thank you all in advance.

Hi, never-mo here.

Posting in this sub cause I doubt what info I'd get from the actual LDS sub.

Was in another sub and the topic of after death baptisms came up...I had questions regarding "family permission" but they were ignored.

So now I'm curious, what exactly defines family permission for an after death baptism?

If I convert tomorrow and ask them to baptise my deceased family member will they go ahead and just do it? Will they reach out and ask my non Mormon relatives how they feel? Or do I need to bring signed permissions from them?

If a spouse wants to baptise an in law but their partner doesn't want to will they be overruled? Or pressured by a church elder to get it done?

If a family of 5 (let's say the three kids are over 8/full church members) vote to have great grandma baptised and it's like 3 yes 2 no do the ayes have it?

If you did do it what was the experience? Did it cause strife or was it brushed aside as a "greater good" thing.

Thank you in advance