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The DAR Genealogy Preservation Committee volunteers have done such an amazing job on the Supporting Documentation Project that we have come to a surprise finish to this project! When it started nearly two years ago, there was more than a century of documents to categorize...now the work is complete. The...
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Interest in joining DAR was strong at 2020 RootsTech, a four-day event held annually in Salt Lake City, Utah, and dedicated to discovering family histories. With more than 300 breakout sessions, celebrity speakers and a gigantic expo hall, the annual conference is a genealogy mecca for thousands of people interested...
I want to thank all of you who are following directives to stay at home in order to physically distance yourselves as we try to slow the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. This is a new type of patriotic duty but a patriotic duty nonetheless. I certainly also want to...
While our DAR Museum is currently closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we are pleased to share that our new exhibit, Illuminating Design: The Decoration and Technology of E. F. Caldwell and Company, 1859-1959, opened earlier this month. The new exhibit explores how design and technology allowed E. F. Caldwell...
They say, “Everything is big in Texas.” After visiting with the Texas Daughters for their 121st State Conference, I can confirm that certainly applies to their hearts. These passionate and devoted women celebrated 125 years of service in the Lone Star State, and I was honored to be their guest...
I want to take this opportunity to assure you that everyone here at DAR Headquarters is taking seriously all concerns related the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The well-being of our membership, employees and the public is our top priority, and we are taking all necessary precautions and closely monitoring ongoing developments...
The NSDAR Archives Fund, which provides for the purchase of appropriate documents and objects for our Archives, conservation of the collection and the acquisition of items necessary to maintain the archival facility, is celebrating a quarter century in 2020. The NSDAR Archives is an institutional archives, which houses records created...
“Growing and Blooming” is the administration theme chosen by Alabama State Regent Tammy Bradshaw Clemons, who selected a red rose as her symbol – but not just any red rose. The “Tammy Clemons” was cultivated by her husband David for his stable of outstanding exhibition roses in “sweetheart red” and...
Tensions were rising. Tempers were flaring. The crowd that gathered in the streets of Boston on the night of March 5, 1770, was about to ignite an incendiary flare that would spark a firestorm; when the chaos ultimately dissipated, five men would be dead. The soldiers who shot them would...
Four Centuries of Friendship and Diplomacy – Daughters of the American Revolution in the Netherlands
As most of us know, these United States owe a great debt of gratitude to the Netherlands for its support of our fight for independence nearly 250 years ago. It is with this in mind that our President General chose the Netherlands as the first overseas tour of her Administration...