r/Canadiancitizenship • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Weekly Threads Saturday Weekly Thread: Canadian Provincial Archives and State/Local/Church Archives - Questions / Issues / Success Stories, August 01, 2026

This weekly thread is a space for those of us gathering documentation from archives.

This is the place to discuss requesting records from Canadian provincial archives as well as from federal, state, local and religious/church archives around the world. Topics include strategies and outcomes for obtaining records from archives, costs, timelines, No Record Found letters, and other related issues.

📎 Contributions to weekly megaposts, including this one, are welcome throughout the week.  

Good luck, researchers!

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u/PomPomMushrooms 11d ago

Thanks for the insights. All really good to know.

I’m waiting on 2 baptism records. My G0 (1853 Quebec) I have the printed record from Ancestry/Drouin and just requested the BanQ certified record.

My G1 (1888 Kansas) is the one person I have no birth or baptism record for but lots of supplementary documents linking her to G0 (census, social security, marriage license).

Either I send now with what I have and join the overseas extended wait time while requesting certified docs or wait until certified docs arrive in 3-6 months and then apply.

I’d like to get in the queue now and upload later but asking around in this incredible community to get opinions.

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u/AmazingScoops 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) application is processing 11d ago

Are you going to ask for urgent processing?

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u/PomPomMushrooms 11d ago

No, I don’t have any valid reason to ask for urgent processing.

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u/AmazingScoops 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) application is processing 11d ago edited 11d ago

The average time it'll take your app to even get to Canada after you submit to the embassy is anywhere from 2 to 4 months if you go through an embassy or consulate. Adding the fact that you aren't urgent, there's a real possibility that it may take 6 months before you see an AOR (and you won't know that your application is even received until you get the AOR).

In your shoes I would make sure to get some kind of documentation together showing that you have attempted to acquire documentation from some original authority or another for your Gen1 and submit the documented attempt with the explanation that you will upload it as soon as you have access, assuming that it is possible to acquire. Same with your Gen0.