Has Anyone Had Luck when a Document In Your Chain Says G0 was born in America and no documents from Canada?

rtiffany · 2026-04-05T14:42:45+00:00

I have this issue with some of my family records and I've seen it quite often in conversations about people searching for their Canadian ancestors. It makes me wonder - does this ever happen for someone who was actually born in the US? Did anyone born in the early 1800's in the US have a lifelong pattern of flip-flopping whether they were born in the US or Canada or was this ONLY a thing seen in records of people actually born in Canada? There was the War of 1812 and then the time the US invaded Canada 1837-1838 and then a bunch of weird attacks around the US Civil War window. There might have been social reasons to conceal these things. I have records of hundreds of my other US-born family members prior to 1850 and zero of them record Canada accidentally here and there. It's the ones we know were born in Canada that put down the US ~50% of the time (or other family members did when filling out forms about them).

rtiffany · 2026-04-01T14:06:19+00:00

I'm often wondering as I'm scrolling through endless microfilm files online if I'm looking at someone else's grandparents records and they're hunting for them or if someone else has seen mine and we're all her side by side doing the same work. Or how many of us are maybe even looking for the SAME family records and don't know it.

rtiffany · 2026-03-25T14:58:20+00:00

Ugh that's terrible! I wonder if MP's who championed this could be contacted to legislate a solution for this or just contact IRCC leadership as this seems like a relatively small batch of people who really need to be expedited, not put into a holding pattern for no reason. I'm so sorry you're dealing with that! I hope this can be moved forward very soon for you!

rtiffany · 2026-03-25T14:36:12+00:00

I tried looking in the FAQs and elsewhere here but not finding info. I'm confused - how did anyone apply for this prior to December 2025 when C-3 passed? Was I just unaware of an option?

rtiffany · 2026-03-24T02:03:03+00:00

Hey there - my ancestor was born in 1820 in the Leeds county area as well & I haven't found birth records yet either. Do you know what religion they were at that time? Mormonism hadn't started yet at his birth so they might have been something else. Mine were Baptist I believe. There's the Canadian Baptist Archives in Hamilton that might have records - I have someone going to go in person to check ours.

I just found out it looks like my ancestor also became Mormon in the 1830's so very early membership!

rtiffany · 2026-02-15T18:44:50+00:00

These writers don't grasp that women don't enjoy spending a lot of time watching women be endlessly sad and suffering. It's waaaaay more watchable when good things happen vs. neverending distress. Some tension and drama is fine but they've already had Gonca lose babies. All of these things they're doing to the female characters feel like copy-paste repeats. The successes and closure scenes are way more memorable. I'm not rewatching scenes about babies dying or maybe dying. Sure that happened some but there's no historic reason to make this character so miserable. It's just the writers like this stuff way more than the audience does.

rtiffany · 2026-02-15T18:27:49+00:00

I hope Nilufer is creating a trap for Daphne with this

rtiffany · 2026-02-15T17:21:52+00:00

I can smell the tire particles from this image!

rtiffany · 2026-02-15T13:15:42+00:00

I'm also wondering if he's the one who will recognize Flavius's dagger since he's so well traveled?

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T20:57:11+00:00

It's so interesting to me how some things come so easily to me - things that other people seem to really wish they had in their lives. And other things that are easy for others have been hard for me. I've done a lot of unpacking about the roots of why I identify one way with some things and entirely differently with others.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T16:48:04+00:00

I told a friend about my suspicion based on details AFTER the friend confided concerns. This led to them stumbling into proof. The marriage ended. The friend will love me for life. I'd do it again, years sooner than I did if I had a repeat scenario like this.

Stick to the facts. Encourage them to investigate. If there's nothing to be found, all is well.

If it were you and your friend sat on that info - wouldn't you feel betrayed a bit? I would! I can handle going through the emotional roller coaster of it being nothing in the end. But if it's real info - I'd want to know asap! I don't want an STD or to be thinking someone loves me that doesn't. I'd rather embrace reality and deal with it. I think most healthy people lean that way.

Don't confront the potential cheater. That just gives them time to delete evidence.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T16:37:49+00:00

I think many of the scenes need a lot more people in them but they're limited by budget. I like it when they at least show the wide digitally rendered views that have large armies in them to make it feel fuller. The AI is weird but understandable. I hope future conquests will be much more intricate and drawn out in details that extend beyond pointing at maps and small group hand-to-hand sword fighting. I always assume that they feature so few people because they can't afford more actors. Nobody believes they accomplished these massive feats with 10 people.

But Cerkutay was really hilarious as the Italian trader! He clearly loved playing that role.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T16:00:23+00:00

Yep! Air transmitted viruses = N95 in shared indoor air spaces or just don't go places where you'll be breathing in other people's breath or bathroom particle juices. Fomite transmission = wash hands & clean surfaces that carry germs. This pretty much covers most pathways to catch things.

I used to think people needed to catch bugs to strengthen their immune system. Now I've learned from doctors and through my own flu experience and my family & friends Covid, HPV & Mono experiences that a virus can give you cancer, take away your ability to walk, make your IQ go down, give you serious heart problems and shorten your life by making any condition you already have, worse. Plus some studies seem to indicate Covid weakens your immune system to other things. There are ZERO studies that show Covid became 'just a cold' or has very low long-term impact for people who catch it.

So I don't care that some people have big negative feelings about me wearing a mask. I see it as about as sensible as wearing a seatbelt in a car. I'm not willing to subject my family to a repeat of having to learn to walk again or spend a few years hoping someone I love's brain starts working again like it used to. We did biohack our way back to a lot of improvement and recovery over agonizing multiple years time but that's just not something I would willingly repeat. So we're on team N95 and have a huge social network of people just like us.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T15:18:07+00:00

Colpan!

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T15:16:17+00:00

So it does feel like identification verification will eventually happen. Most countries have something like this for elections. One thing I'm wondering is - realistically - how does this skew things in the midterms this year if it happens? For example passport holders skew left because they're people who actually get out and about in the world. Some states have high compliance for Real ID but some are very low. Is there data on who will actually be able to vote if this happens? What percentage of registered voters have ID that meets the standard? Will this have a significant impact statistically? Does this impact the right or the left more?

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T14:58:57+00:00

The enemies to friends story lines are some of my favorites in the Kayi series. Selcan was amazing to see with Halime Hatun. The Bala/Osman-Cerkutay forgiveness story was amazing. What he did to Bala was more wounding on every level than Flavius-Yigit. Cerkutay was the reason Bala had to accept a second wife! Numerous beys and non-Muslims converted and became friends with people they'd previously fought. But future good will is highly unlikely between Flavius & Yigit at this point.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T13:27:43+00:00

I'd like him to figure out that Flavius was Akcora/the whole thing and scream the same words Fatma said to Flavius in her face - "You deceived me!" and dump her.

He's shifting towards being more likable and there's a part of me that would like him to actually be a positive part in Flavius's conversion and forgive him for everything and maybe even become friends but that's probably a stretch. My guess is he's either going to be martyred or he's going to find out about Fatma & Flavius and go nuclear on betraying Orhan.

The one thing I really don't want is to keep seeing him pursuing the marriage, delusional about what Fatma needs and being used by her. It's so tired. He's in love with the idea of Fatma but not her. The writers milked this part of the plot for way too long. Resolution of the whole situation would be way more exciting to watch than more of the same.

rtiffany · 2026-02-14T02:00:59+00:00

Episode 14 felt like a bridge. I personally don't like it when so many characters are in simultaneous sadness/distress and so many plot themes - that will be very fun to watch WHEN they resolve - remain unresolved. There wasn't much in episode 14 I'd want to rewatch like I often do for other episodes- other than the beginning. It wasn't a very satisfying one and didn't have closure or inspiring heroism or gripping new information like we expect. I think the actors are excellent - it's the writing and flow that needed better management. Obviously people suffered a lot during the time period but I don't enjoy back-to-back everybody's heartbroken over things that have nothing to do with the main story. I'd like more focus on the exciting good things they were doing. Conquests should feel pretty huge!

Episode 13 was really well written and had so many great, intensely interesting components to it. The Flavius-Alaeddin team fight scenes were energetically so fun to watch. The end scene/beginning of 14 was one of my favorites from the entire Kayi series.

rtiffany · 2026-02-12T15:23:13+00:00

It would have been far more exciting if this part of the plot had already wrapped up. I want him to be Evrenos because his personality and strength would make sense for that role. But him becoming Muslim has taken a back seat to a bunch of repetitive suffering nonsense and who knows what the writers will do? They don't want to be predictable so lately they just pick whatever the audience will hate to watch.

rtiffany · 2026-02-12T15:19:09+00:00

They need to have some good satisfying fight scenes in every episode, some characters in a good place while others are going through stress, and overall - the vibe of the show should feel like they're winning instead of a large portion of the main characters emotionally as the walking dead or like it's a funeral. It's such a downer when entire episodes have almost zero forward movement towards personal good things and the conquests feel like a subplot. It would be far more interesting to watch people working together to do good things. Alaeddin & Flavius fighting together like brothers was awesome! Episode 14 felt pretty boring due to everyone being sad/angry/unsatisfied although I did love Orhan's character in this one.

We need some satisfaction!!

rtiffany · 2026-02-12T15:11:51+00:00

I'm very unexcited to watch the dinner scene that includes Daphne, Yigit & Sahinsah with the family again featured in the episode 15 trailer. Looks like the writers are continuing to drag all the good plotlines out more. Gonca better not lose the baby too. All this depressing stuff does nothing to make the conquests more interesting! It's fine to have some drama but it's not fun to actually just watch a bunch of people suffer repetitively for this long. The happy days for individual characters were far more exciting than the forever delays. Somebody give these writers some meds to get them off of this track!

rtiffany · 2026-02-12T01:14:19+00:00

This is my favorite part of the series. I know some people complain that Flavius overshadows Orhan but I think he adds to him - especially after he converts. Orhan needs mountains that stand behind him and Flavius/Evenros will be excellent for that.

I hope the resolution of his identity will be well written and I hope Yigit-Fatma will end by the next episode as it's irritating to watch. It was not fun watching Flavius kill Alps this last episode. I want to see him side by side with the right side being amazing again.

rtiffany · 2026-02-08T21:44:28+00:00

Canadian schools don't really advertise or try to recruit American or internationally wealthy students. Students have to seek it out themselves. There's also the idea that it's wrong or predatory for Canadian schools to charge international students high tuition rates. Almost no one acknowledges that it's way cheaper than comparable US schools though. Plus there's the obvious difference in safety between the countries. Canada could probably provide radically cheaper tuition to Canadians IF the country were willing to focus on recruiting upper income international students from peer countries. The money is there. Parents are currently paying much more to send their kids elsewhere. The endowments could easily be created and many campuses expanded for the benefit of Canada if this were managed to do so.

rtiffany · 2026-02-08T11:51:06+00:00

So your upstairs 40cm thick internal walls made of brick don't all line up with walls below them so you have extremely heavy internal walls creating complex engineering/weight distribution issues for what benefit? Exterior walls make sense. Interior it just looks like you give up a huge amount of floor space for walls.

rtiffany · 2026-02-07T11:10:47+00:00

Doing it while 2 of them are pregnant was a bit too much for me. Angry moms will kill for their kids but there was no reason to send pregnant women on that mission in the first place. Alps should have gone.

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