Your great-grandmother was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, in 1898. The parish priest recorded her baptism four days later, in a leather-bound register, in French. No one ever issued her a birth certificate. For most of Quebec’s history, no one issued birth certificates at all. That baptismal record counts as evidence in a citizenship by descent […]

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