At first glance, a Quebec parish baptism record—one of the most important documents (where needed) for a citizenship by descent claim—looks like an impenetrable wall of 19th-century French cursive. However, underneath the handwriting sits a form with a determined structure. Priests across Quebec wrote these entries to a fixed template. The Church set the rules, […]

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