expired Posted by ShengD • Nov 24, 2022
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expired Posted by ShengD • Nov 24, 2022
Nov 24, 2022 8:15 AM
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If someone else puts a family tree up with my mother's name, I can't stop them, nor can you stop any of your extended family from doing the same, so that has nothing to do with whether you personally use Ancestry or not. But since I'm alive, and so is my mother, most people even on their public trees have it set to not show the names of living people.
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I knew nothing of my grandfather. My grandparents divorced when my mother was an infant and she never met him until he was on his deathbed. I'm not even sure how much my grandmother knew about him (certainly not the worst parts before being married).
In any case, it ends up his parents immigrated from Luxembourg and had him in their first year here, all discovered through Ancestry. I was able to find my great grandparents lineage, acquire all of the birth, marriage, and death records, and show the documented chain of lineage. Luxembourg has two paths of reclaiming citizenship (they view you as a born citizen that hasn't claimed it yet). My path was the more unconventional one where I could claim citizenship so long as there was a paternal line with the only maternal break in it being my mother.
Thus I qualified for that. It took about 18 months start to finish but ended up working. I did hire a company to assist me mostly because I can't speak Luxembourgish (something like a mix between French, German, and Dutch). Kids got it too. I went from having no idea I had such ancestry to being a citizen in that short of a time frame.
This doesn't work for every nation. Very few, in fact. Ireland is somewhat lenient in they allow two generations removed from citizenship, but then the line is lost. So my grandmother could have applied being second generation from Ireland but my mother could not have, so that path was broken.
Hope that helps some.
Oh and this applies to my kids as well. We spend a pretty penny just to keep our passports valid...
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Oh and this applies to my kids as well. We spend a pretty penny just to keep our passports valid...
Maybe you being an EU citizen have different rules, but I assure you that is not at all true for US citizens.