As a follow up to last week’s exciting blog from Registrar General, Sharon Withers, about expanding the NSDAR DNA Group on Family Tree DNA’s website, I’m pleased to share even more DNA news!

Earlier this year, NSDAR admitted the first DAR member to use Y-DNA as genealogical evidence! 

Recently I had the privilege of visiting with the Thankful Hubbard Chapter in Austin, Texas about the Guardian Trust Campaign.  The Chapter meets at Chateau Bellevue, also known as the Austin Women’s Club, built in 1874.

Chapter Regent Betty Bird welcomed over 100 ladies to the luncheon and I

“You’ve Got Mail!”  the title of a popular 1998 movie was also the theme of the Office of the Registrar General during the month of October.  In the movie version, the title refers to e-mail but in Data Entry, it refers to postal mail, specifically large envelopes containing new member

I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce you to the Office of the Organizing Secretary General and, in particular, to our new office manager, Tania Tatum. Tania brings a wealth of experience from assignments elsewhere within our National Headquarters and leads our entire team in an unwavering commitment to

I am so thrilled to announce that 2013 was yet another record year for new member applications at DAR. During this past year DAR approved 13,906 applications, which is more than any other year in the Society’s 123 year history! For more information about the record number of new members

Like many of you, I enjoy genealogy and am always delighted to establish another patriot or prove a new child of a patriot.  However, for the last few years I’ve encountered far more brick walls than successes.  If you, too, dabble in genealogy, you know exactly what I mean!

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When meeting Daughters in my travels, I love to ask why they joined DAR.  For many, it was a family tradition and they enjoy sharing our organization with several generations of their family.  One of my favorite aspects, which draws many women to DAR, is that there is a variety

Our back yard has a massive live oak tree in the center.  Although we love watching the birds and squirrels play on it, the shade of the tree kept grass from growing.  A few years ago we turned the entire back yard into a garden with a path along the