Bill C-3 Lineage Qualifier

Coming Soon

Many descendants of Cajun and Acadian families have Canadian-born ancestors who migrated to Louisiana before the modern era. Under Bill C-3 (2009), those with a documented lineage to a Canadian-born parent may qualify for Canadian citizenship by descent.

What the tool will do

  1. Connect your FamilySearch account
  2. Crawl your ancestor tree automatically
  3. Identify Canadian-born ancestors (filtering false positives like "Acadia Parish, LA")
  4. Rank lineage paths by documentation feasibility
  5. Generate a document acquisition checklist for your strongest path

The tool combines automated FamilySearch crawling with Legreffe's archive of primary parish documents to help you identify the most provable lineage path and gather the evidence you need.

Get notified when it launches

In the meantime, browse the archive to see what records are already available for your family.