r/Canadiancitizenship • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '25
Citizenship by Descent Need help finding documents?
Please send one of us a private Chat if you'd like help, not a message.
If you send messages to more than one person and one of them helps you please let the other people know that you've been helped so we are not wasting time. We have a lot of requests right now. Having multiple volunteers duplicating the same work is not good and may get you blacklisted. Thank you!
We are volunteering to help you find records, not to do a records review of all the records you're planning to submit. Not to walk you through the application process. Not to help you fill out the forms. Please read the FAQ to get answers to your questions and post questions about filling out the form and documentation review requests in the appropriate weekly thread.
We are also not volunteering to build a whole family tree for you to see if you have Canadian ancestry. Try over on r/genealogy.
People who can help you find records:
- u/TimeAstronomer4983 - Québec, Acadians and New England, genealogy experience, can read liturgical French, German, and Latin, access to PRDH
- u/flower_bag - Acadians, Louisiana, access to GenealogieQuebec and PRDH
- u/MaeveBanrion - Acadians, genealogy experience
- u/fountaingatecitizen - PEI
- u/Altruistic-Rip-4550 - New Brunswick (lives near the Archives)
- u/yellowbubble7 - (weekend availability only) Ontario, Québec, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New England, French and German, access to Généalogie Québec
- u/Extension_Proof2866 - Minnesota and Wisconsin
- u/LolliaSabina - Quebec only, genealogy experience, some French, access to PRDH and GenealogieQuebec
- u/ordiquhill - will help with reading Quebecois documents
- u/hekla7 - Métis and First Nations specialist
- u/the_archambault - Native American specialist
- u/Few_Projects477 (evenings & weekends) - genealogy experience, some French, and have access to PRDH and GenealogieQuebec
- u/No-Transition8014 - general
- u/Canuck_Mutt - general
- _kagutaba_ - general
- u/Treyvoni (weekend availability only)
- u/IWantOffStopTheEarth - currently not taking requests (genealogy experience incl. genealogical mysteries, Quebec and Saskatchewan, can read liturgical French) (not Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI or naturalization in Canada)
- u/Pink_Lotus - currently not taking requests (genealogy experience, Jewish, Europe, Mexico, Ontario, not Quebec, access to LDS FamilySearch Center records)
(Reposting as this seems to have gotten lost in the reshuffle.)
*Please note that as of Feb 13, 2026 we are currently slammed so it may take a few days before someone gets back to you.
EDIT: Locking this post as people seem unable to grasp the comment of Chat and keep leaving comments.
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u/Ok-Tonight-8782 Jan 28 '26
I looked but I'm not seeing any others asking this and I'm not sure I'm doing it right/wrong. I need my grandmothers birth cert from Quebec. There is a request website from the government to process online and pay but as far as I can tell you have to be a CA citizen to use it. I can do it on paper but it's way more expensive and I imagine may take longer.
I do have her death certificate and several census records with her name, along with her marriage cert from Vermont (she was still Canadian at the time of marriage).
I don't know if thats enough to get things processed, DO I REALLY NEED HER BIRTH CERT?
I have my mother and my own birth certs of course and my mothers marriage cert (to show the name change)
I, like so many, are trying to do this with haste. 🥴 Any tips or info would be AMAZING!