I have my Canadian citizenship again due to the whole "wake up Canadian" thing a few years ago, but I need to go to the consulate and get an ID card and some things like that.

I'm eligible for Irish citizenship since my grandfather was born there. I really need to follow up on that and do it.

ND, do it! Irish citizenship = EU citizenship, which benefits you so much when you travel in Western Europe. I wish there was a path there for me, but the closest Euro relative is my great-grandfather, who immigrated from Sweden.

I have ongoing low-level rage that my closest EU relative was my Austrian grandmother, and Austria because ohferfucksakeyoucrazyassedpatriarchalcountry only recognizes grandfathers.

My closest EU relatives are my paternal great grand parents. Grandpa was apparently born within a month of his parents' immigration. I never cared before, but now I kinda wish great grandpa Issac had put that trip off a few months.

My paternal great grandfather was born in Italy in 1881. Which would actually work, except that my father was born in 1928, and he needed to have been born after Jan. 1, 1948 in order for him to be able to inherit his Italian citizenship from my grandmother.

My Dad's side of the family has been in the U.S. since the 1720s so no such options for me!

3 of my great grandparents were born in Ireland and 1 in Germany. My mother went over and met some Irish relatives, but I haven't, yet.

The guy who's probably my biological father was British. I'm grumpy about that - so close! But there's no way to prove it now, he's dead, my mom's dead (and would never admit it anyway), and my legal father is probably dead but who knows where he is. Well, okay, he's probably in Pennsylvania, but we haven't spoken in 30 years. Man, my family is a Lifetime movie just waiting to be written.

My maternal grandparents were British, so I suppose there might be something there. But I've already got two citizenships so it's not exactly pressing.

I don't think any of my ancestors left their home countries with their original citizenship intact. Maybe the Italians: that would be my great grandmother, I don't know when exactly, but Mom was definitely born before 1948 so I will assume amyth's info applies.

I still think it would be hilarious if I could actually qualify for the DAR, just to get my last name on the roster. We have forebears who were in the right place at the right time but historically my people fled wars in general and ran away specifically to avoid being drafted and there is no evidence that those in the American Revolution era were any different. It's a heritage I am proud of, though, all things considered.