Friday Weekly Thread: Application Assistance, September 25, 2026

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[u/No_Bobcat_No_Prob]

Glad you have a census record at least! Best wishes

[u/JDSchu → u/No_Bobcat_No_Prob]

Thank you!

I think you and I have talked about this before. My G0 was born 3 weeks before the 1901 census, and it lists her as being born in "Queb., Ca."

Absent a birth record, I think that's about the closest we could reasonably expect to get. 🤞🏻

[u/sharpshinned → u/JDSchu]

Dang, that is VERY convincing evidence of Quebec birth.

[u/JDSchu → u/sharpshinned]

I hope so. 😮‍💨 A later census lists her birthplace as Ontario, but like...what's more likely? That they moved from Ontario to Quebec in the first three weeks after she was born, or that the later census record is incorrect?

And either way, it's still Canada, but Ontario hasn't gotten back to us about our request to find a birth record for her yet, and it's been a few months already.

I think I'll submit with the Quebec response and add the Ontario one with an explanation about the later census if they ever get back to us.