Recent Blog Posts

Jessica Chase, Senior Director, Membership
As part of our continued efforts to give our members the best experience, we are excited to announce the launch of NSDAR Email Communication Preferences — a new feature designed to give you more control over the emails you receive from the National Society. We understand that members receive communications...
Patrick Sheary, Curator of Furnishings and Manager of Historic Preservation
May is National Historic Preservation Month, and as part of the celebration, we are highlighting the restoration of Memorial Continental Hall (MCH), a national historic landmark and the focus of two President General Projects spanning the Wright and Storage administrations. In 2023 a campaign to restore MCH began under President...
Jennifer Johnson, DAR Museum Director and Chief Curator
In honor of National Historic Preservation Month this May, we are highlighting one of the DAR mission pillars that serves as a common thread throughout so many of our initiatives: historic preservation. At its core, historic preservation is about commemorating the places, stories, and landmarks that connect us to our...
Gale Markley, National Chair, DAR Genealogy Research Institute
DAR members, friends, and families from coast-to-coast attended the fifth annual DAR Genealogy Research Institute held at our House Beautiful in Washington, DC May 3-6, 2026. The 2026 Institute featured Master Class lecturers Michael N. Henderson and Diana Elder. Mr. Henderson, a historian, genealogist, and author of GOT PROOF! My...
Michelle McElroy, South Dakota State Regent
It was a joy to welcome President General Ginnie Sebastian Storage to the 112th SDSDAR State Conference. She was joined by Vice President General Kathyrn Asay, Honorary Vice President General Maureen Tipton, State Regents Priscilla Jevne, Susan Gillette Meer, Barbara Foote-Hennessy, and National Chairs Marcia Shavlik, Katherine Borges, and Kay...
Marcy Carter-Lovick, Registrar General
NSDAR Executive Week in Washington, D.C. is always action-packed and productive, but April’s meetings were especially so. Executives arrived ready to serve and began the week by welcoming members from across the nation to their “House Beautiful” for an America 250! Open House on Friday evening. Details of NSDAR’s birthday...
Mernie Crane, Chaplain General
On April 20, 2026 the President General and Executive Committee made the National Society’s annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon to honor George and Martha Washington by laying a wreath at their tomb. They also continued the tradition begun during the Wright Administration by placing a wreath at The Slave Memorial...
Ginnie Sebastian Storage, President General
Our recent DAR Celebrates America 250! Weekend marked a once-in-a-lifetime moment in the history of our beloved Daughters of the American Revolution, the opportunity to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation. We had the distinct honor of welcoming members and visitors from across the country to...
Kate Johanns, National Chair, DAR Magazine
As a DAR volunteer, you may have found yourself second-guessing yourself as you wrote an article for a chapter newsletter or a committee report. Does America 250! really have an exclamation point? Should eMembership be hyphenated? What is the proper way to refer to the DAR Members’ Website? The answers...
Renee Pace, Curator General and Jennifer Johnson, Museum Director and Chief Curator
Revolution in Their Words and Preserving Patriotism: The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy at DAR , two special exhibitions bringing America’s founding voices into focus, opened to the public with a special preview on the evening of March 26. Guests enjoyed refreshments in the O’Bryne Gallery and opening remarks...