Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents…came from somewhere else.
I’m related to 7 different passengers of the Mayflower!
…yup I’m not moving countries the easy way
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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents, or in some cases great grandparents came from somewhere else. Many countries allow near descendents to get citizenship.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 days ago
MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Oh damn maybe we’re related. Wing?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I’ll have to have my dad explain it again because he’s the one who’s really been deep diving into genealogy, but I remember he said the captain of the ship and the guy that fell overboard were two of the people we’re related to
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For great grandparents I go through 23 and me or other similar service, right? I know the grandparents on my mother’s side are Venezuelan and the ones on my father’s side are from the US, I don’t know about further back than that.
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
23 and me is a private company that sells your data and gives you a piece of paper with some percentage points written on it.
Unless your relatives are still alive and have another country’s citizenship along with the papers to prove it, you’re out of luck.corvi@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If you have Italian ancestry, they actually have government help that will do free reviews of US immigration documents. I missed my Italian citizenship by a few years :(
But it was super easy to find out. Just google around for it, jure sanguinis or something like that.
Johnny5@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What? Can’t you just ask your mom who her grandparents were?
Although as I type this I realize I have no idea if your parents are still alive, or on speaking terms.
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lol all good, she is alive, and we are on speaking terms (I see her a few times a week). I’ll ask her, but I’m pretty certain her grandparents are native to Venezuela too. I don’t know if she really knows them or if they’re still alive though…
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
lol all good, she is alive, and we are on speaking terms (I see her a few times a week). I’ll ask her, but I’m pretty certain her grandparents are native to Venezuela too. I don’t know if she really knows them or if they’re still alive though…
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I may have to look into this. My grandparents on my father’s side moved here from Norway as children (separate families obviously but immigrated around the same time to the same place, Minnesota) I’d love to go to Norway, I even know a (very) little Norwegian.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
and that’s the true story of how my partner and i figured out that the only non US place that will take us is ruzzia
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
And that’s the true story of how I learned all my Polish ancestors came over before modern Poland was a thing, and thus didn’t have Polish citizenship to pass on.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
broooo! same! the weird part is that the part of so called russian poland my family was from when they evacuated Europe is in Western Ukraine now, so i guess the conclusion is everything’s made up and nationalities don’t matter
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.
If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Similarly fuzzy! I think they mostly came from the “Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria” region of Poland. Some definitely have “Galicia” on their earlier census records, then later records for the same relatives say Poland. Other relatives waffle between Poland and Russia. t National borders are so fuzzy.
The other side of the family is from Appalachia since the 1800s, but sometimes can’t decide if they’re born in TN or KY because they were from a disputed region.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 days ago
Mine did, too, I received Polish citizenship this year. If your family came from what is today Poland and you can prove that, you’re eligible. If not, and they came from the territory that is today Hungary, Romania, etc - then check with those countries instead as similar laws apply.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is a rough one, damn
Magister@lemmy.world 4 days ago
our partner now
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Free benefits
Hubi@feddit.org 4 days ago
Oof