Hi all!
I'm looking into my mother's claim to citizenship (G3), as my father and I have a much more easily documentable one and I don't want her to be left out.
Her female G0 (Catholic, born Ontario 1853) lacks any readily available birth or marriage certificate, but I do have a couple of records that corroborate each other:
- an 1861 Canadian census that lists her under her maiden name, lists her birth as Canada, and presumably the daughter of Irish immigrants
- her 1911 American death certificate that provides her maiden name, her birthdate (matches her age on the 1861 census), and her parents (names and nationality match the 1861 census)
I also have a couple of American census records (1900,1910) that corroborate her age, place of birth, and relationship to her husband (himself born in U.S. but raised mostly in Canada). Four of their five children were also born in Canada (guess who my mother's G1 is, lol).
I've reached out to the Catholic parishes where I suspect she was baptized and married to see if they have anything, but I imagine they're swamped with requests and I wonder if they even have anything that isn't yet digitized.
Obviously no one here is the IRCC, but does what I have already seem legitimate or comparable to other applications, or is it worth waiting to see if the parishes find anything? I'd like my paper trail to be as clear as possible for their review.
Thank you!