Claiming Canadian Citizenship:  Step One Canada Flag & Stars from Getty via Unsplash: Free In September,   Leah Larkin told us about her complicated effort to claim Canadian citizenship* through one of her Acadian ancestors who were forced out of Canada centuries ago. While inspiring, most of us would not strive to complete such a huge project. My goal should be much easier to accomplish because my paternal grandfather was born in Ontario, Canada, and his birth registration is already linked in my tree. Due to a recent change in Canadian law, those who can prove descent from a Canadian are eligible to claim Canadian citizenship . This change has opened a flood of requests to all Canadian archives to provide the certified documents needed in this quest. Larkin told us in September the wait would be three years for her filed claim! My reason for claiming citizenship is that one of my sons is urging me to do so. Our daughter-in-law, his wife, is Canadian because ...

Image generated by Nanobnana 2 May 2026 If you have tested your DNA for genealogy, you are either excited by all the new information coming your way, or hopelessly bewildered—or somewhere in-between, like many of us. If you and close relatives have tested at least you can easily prove the beginning of your DNA tree, which is YOU and your biological relatives. This DNA tree may or may not be the same as the research that you have labored over for many years, hunting for official records, context and other evidence of the lives of your relatives and ancestors.  If you have been "doing genealogy" for a while you know the final step: writing it up . But how to do that with DNA evidence? How do you explain all those numbers so that they mean something, much less PROVE your tree? And how can I say it is "easy?"  I recently found the answer in Legacy Family Tree Webinars  by  Karen Stanbary, CG®, CGG® in a series called DNA in Action ; 2 of 6 which are available. I plan t...