Every certificate in your line, tracked in one place
Rootdossier organises the paperwork for citizenship through a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent. Map the line, and the register lists every document your route asks for, with the rule behind it. Track each one from requested to checked, catch the names and dates that do not match, and print the index for filing. Free, with no account.
Organiser, not legal advice. Rules change: confirm with the consulate or a lawyer.
The chain decides the list
Add yourself, your parent and the ancestor your claim runs through, with the events of each life. A marriage adds a marriage certificate; a naturalisation abroad adds its record and a date check.
Mismatches found early
Hanlon on one record and Hanlan on the next, a day and month swapped, Queenstown and Cobh. Each mismatch is listed with the two documents it comes from and a note on how you resolved it.
Family data never leaves this browser
Names, dates, places and references are stored only in this browser. There is no account and nothing is uploaded; documents themselves are never stored, only where the paper is.
Countries and routes
- Germany: Declaration (section 5); Restoration (Art. 116(2), s. 15); Ordinary descent.
- Ireland: Foreign Births Register (grandparent); Automatic (parent born in Ireland).
- Poland: Confirmation (unbroken descent).
- Canada: Descent beyond the first generation.
- Italy: Only-Italian parent or grandparent (narrowed); Parent resident in Italy two years (narrowed); Legacy (pending or court case) (legacy).
45 rules, each with its source, edition and the day it was read. Rules we could not confirm at a primary source are shown as settings to check, never as facts.
How it works
- Pick the country and the route from the lists.
- Add each person in the line and what happened to them.
- Work through the register: request, receive, apostille, translate, check.
- Print the missing list, and the document index when you file.
Not sure where to start? Read citizenship by descent through a grandparent or all the guides.
What it is not
- Not legal advice and not an application service. It does not decide whether you qualify and it files nothing.
- Not an official form. Every printout is our own layout.
- Not a family tree. It holds only the line your claim runs through.
- Rootdossier is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any government, consulate, embassy, ministry, court or law firm, including the German, Irish, Polish, Canadian and Italian authorities that decide citizenship cases.