I have a question I have not seen covered, might be silly, but just to check for sure. My great grandparents both came to the US in the mid 1860s and were children under 10 years old with their parents, do I need to go back one more generation to the adults?
I had come across one article that showed documents needed, and it listed birth death and marriage certificate following name changes. My question is, do you need birth and death certificates for each person in the linage that is now dead, or do you need at least one of them, just showing parental link in chain of ancestry? I feel like I am spiraling in “I need more documentation” and will end up with more paperwork than I need that is just going to slow it down.
I do not have birth certificates for Gen 0, they were both born in the 1860s in Quebec, a bit south of Montreal. I have photos of the baptismal records of both of them with a translation from Ancestry. I have death certificate for my great grandfather, as he died here in the US, near me, but again, it is a photo of the certificate. My cousin said she was able to get the certificate 15 years ago, but when I went this week, they couldn’t find the record. I asked them to forward it to the state office, but it should have been in this office. They couldn’t find my mother’s birth certificate last week, either, but my sister found it, last minute.
So to recap from babbling, do you need both birth and death for each step of the linage?