Daughters everywhere are continuing to serve their communities through countless activities and projects.   You can see this as you watch the ever increasing Celebrate America Tally grow steadily!  Hours are being logged; photos and stories are being sent to the [email protected] address.  Here are some recent examples of interesting member

Last week I drove to Austin for the Texas DAR Fall Forum.  On Friday afternoon over 300 members and descendants of patriots traveled to the historic Texas State cemetery to rededicate the Patriot Monument to the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Texas.  The generous Texas Daughters erected this

I have been thrilled to hear from so many chapters and members this month about your plans to celebrate Constitution Week. With the last days of summer upon us and the start of another school year, there is no time like the present to get involved. Contact your local

September 12-15 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore during which Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner which became our National Anthem in 1931.   No doubt you are familiar with the story of the battle which inspired the song, but I thought you might enjoy

More than 113 years ago, one chapter in one state decided that it was important to help educate children about America.  In 1901, the Cincinnati Chapter in Ohio started a club “to teach…children some knowledge of the underlying principles of our government, of American sentiment, and of all that will

The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conference was held in San Antonio last week and DAR was well represented by our Director of Genealogy, Darryn Lickliter, and many Texas DAR volunteers including Nancy Brennan, local conference co-chair.

Darryn drove from D.C. to Houston where we met with Bennett Greenspan, President

The 123rd Continental Congress offered a lot that was new: a new format for forums and hotel events, a new official Congress hotel and a terrific new Celebrate America event. As you may have heard, NSDAR also rolled out a new program called Sustaining Supporter.  

This program

Over the next month DAR Genealogy will be traveling to different events in order to create awareness about DAR and our amazing genealogy resources. In recent years we have made it a priority for DAR to have a presence at national genealogy conferences and other genealogy type events to not

At this year’s Continental Congress we felt ignited by the spirit of volunteering throughout the week’s activities, particularly at Celebrate America Night, and I am eager to see all members continue with this spirit as they are beginning a new year of DAR work.

Enter your Celebrate America! service hours

Last week Steve and I had the opportunity to return to beautiful New Hampshire.  We traveled near the coast to Exeter to meet State Regent Phyllis Gagnon, her husband Roland, Past Treasurer General Bea Dalton and her husband, Mike, State Vice Regent Wendy Jones and her husband, Turner, and Exeter