Archive - March 2019

Mary Frisch, Registrar General
It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve as Registrar General in the Dillon Administration. I have enjoyed working with the chapter registrars as they endeavored to move forward in service to DAR by expanding their chapter membership numbers. Many thanks to all of you for your support...
Alden O'Brien, DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles
The DAR Museum’s new exhibit is open! “ A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts ” will be open in our main gallery through December 31, 2019. The exhibit explores how women in the 19 th century created quilts that reflected their makers’ involvement in the...
Ginger Trader, Historian General
Historic Preservation – Those objects, manuscripts, letters that tell the story of our society and what it stands for and what those resilient women of history endured. The Historian Generals office is entrusted with the safe keeping of these awesome records of history. Where does one begin to express the...
Pamela Loos-Noji, DAR Staff Genalogist
I was excited to be one of the three DAR genealogists to be representing DAR Headquarters at the RootsTech 2019 conference in Salt Lake City, UT. Simply walking into the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City was intimidating, it is humongous. Early on Wednesday, setup in the exhibit...
Amanda Vasquez, DAR Archivist
DAR takes pride in its beautiful National Headquarters located in Washington, DC. When turning the pages through history, a theme that emerges time and time again is the restoration and maintenance of these historic buildings as they age. In the mid-2000s a survey was conducted that identified several large construction...
Patricia Hatfield, Librarian General
Collecting and preserving records has been my passion in life. As Librarian General, I have had an opportunity to indulge my passion. Marriage, birth, death, Bible records, or any record that shines a light on the past is important to the DAR Library . The role of the Library is...