Age is just a number.
Mary Treacy Degnan, Frank Kelly, Anne Treacy Fenlon, Emmett Fenlon, Milo Lacy, Edward J. Fenlon, Jr. at 123 Woodland Ave on 28 May 1938. Today's post examines the question of age and what people report as their date of birth (DOB) in various circumstances. As you might recall, this issue has previously come up in the Immigrant Ancestor blog post about Edward J. Fenlon, Sr. The new set of mismatched DOBs comes up in the context of new family history documents that Ethan and I obtained in response to Bill C-3, the Canadian law that passed in December 2025. This bill governs Canadian citizenship by descent. Amazingly, it makes anyone who has a Canadian ancestor a citizen retroactively to their birth! So, all of us who are descended from Janet MacDonell Treacy qualify. I will post more about Bill C-3 in the future, but if you want to know more you can email me about it at any time. We all know that my gr...
