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Although the festivities of the 126 th Continental Congress may seem like just yesterday, with the end of summer approaching, we are already planning for the 127 th Continental Congress! The official dates for next year’s Congress are June 20 – 24, 2018. Your Congress Chairs and our staff at...
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Watching the news coverage of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey has been heartbreaking. How does someone get through such devastation? Our thoughts and prayers are with the many DAR members living in the areas affected, as well as the millions of others who have had their lives upended by this...
DAR has set an ambitious membership goal of 250,000 by 2033 in celebration of the United States Semiquincentennial. This represents an addition of about 65,000 members, or an approximate 35-percent increase in total membership during the next 15 years. Difficult and ambitious? Yes, but achievable if chapters reach the goal...
(The title is a quote by Hamlin Garland, 1893) On Saturday, August 12 th the DAR Museum successfully hosted its first World’s Fair event! The event took inspiration from turn-of-the-century World’s Fairs, particularly the 1893 Columbian Exposition and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Nearly 1,000 visitors joined us for a...
Since Mrs. Dillon’s March blog, the restoration of the Connecticut Board room is complete. As everyone may recall the room was in pretty rough condition with failing plaster ornament, peeling paint and deteriorated woodwork. Over a four month period, architectural conservators from Worcester Eisenbrandt Inc. (WEI) of Baltimore, MD under...
The DAR Museum has been working on a project to enable the public to use the DAR website to find information about objects in the DAR Museum collection. This is a big task since the museum collection contains over 30,000 objects. We use a database to keep track of all...
We often get questions from members and other researchers who want more information about records that they find in the DAR GRS. After the Ancestor tab that you can read about in Using the Ancestor Tab of the GRS; the most commonly used tab of the GRS is the Descendants...
Even after a few weeks I am still thinking about how fun Continental Congress was! I had a great time and if you attended; I hope you felt the same way. Whether you were able to attend or not, we wanted you to feel connected to some of the events...
National Defense Night was a truly moving ceremony. Our speakers gave such thoughtful and meaningful remarks and each of our award winners were more than worthy of their awards. National Defense Night is always one of my favorite evenings. I feel privileged to stand in our beautiful auditorium singing the...
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves at last evening’s Service to America Night! It was fun to walk around and explore all that was going on and visit so many of you. Each of the committees had festively decorated tables and much information to share with the members. Remember to take...