Continental Congress is fast approaching! As you are planning your schedules and preparing your packing lists, don’t forget about Genealogy Research.
The DAR Library and the Office of the Registrar General have several different learning opportunities that you might want to plan into your schedule. Tuesday morning the Library will
Let’s admit it—many of us enjoy Facebook. That being said, haven’t you ever wished that there were a few pages with no games, no “What Kind of Vegetable Would You Be?” quizzes, no recipes, and no political commentary? Have I got good news for you!
Remember how excited you were as you were about to become a new member of our Society? As prospective members discover their ancestors and anticipate becoming Daughters, a prolonged wait for required evidence for their applications - or a letter requesting additional information – can really discourage them, and you
The next time you visit the DAR Library, you might notice that we’ve been making some enhancements to improve the accessibility of some of our resources. Thanks to very generous donations from the Georgia State Society, Sharon De Puy of New York and Joan Peters of Washington, the Library
With the New Year upon us, I wanted to highlight some of the resources available to you to assist with your genealogy research. Especially with the opportunities that will be presented to us with the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States, we must take advantage of the increased
The Patriot Records Project began in the fall of 2014 and will make finding and identifying Revolutionary War patriots in hard to search collections easier than ever. The project brings the exploits of the American patriots, who sacrificed so much, to life. We index the names of men, women and
The Genealogical Records Committee (GRC) has been in existence for more than one hundred years. During that time, the committee has collected approximately 20,000 volumes containing original source records such as: court, baptismal, marriage, death, tax, probate and many other records useful for genealogical research. Cemetery records were gathered from
Did you know that October is Family History Month? Many DAR members are avid genealogy researchers and are focused on researching past generations of our ancestors. Most people have to admit that even if they do not consider themselves to be “genealogists,” they have some desire to know about their
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
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
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