Daughters of the American Revolution

[Hypnautic]

Just running through Fox News and saw that Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) was founded today in 1890.
My Sister and my two girls are all registered members of DAR.
My Father is deep into our family's genealogy and once verified it is easy to register.
I think my Father said the "Family" has been part of DAR since 1916 or something like that.

Anyone else?
For Daughters going to school--they have scholarship funds available too.

 

[4Waters]

Just running through Fox News and saw that Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) was founded today in 1890.
My Sister and my two girls are all registered members of DAR.
My Father is deep into our family's genealogy and once verified it is easy to register.
I think my Father said the "Family" has been part of DAR since 1916 or something like that.

Anyone else?
For Daughters going to school--they have scholarship funds available too.

Have to look into that

 

[79 HUSTLER]

Just running through Fox News and saw that Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) was founded today in 1890.
My Sister and my two girls are all registered members of DAR.
My Father is deep into our family's genealogy and once verified it is easy to register.
I think my Father said the "Family" has been part of DAR since 1916 or something like that.

Anyone else?
For Daughters going to school--they have scholarship funds available too.

My daughter got a good sized scholarship from them. As well as a separate Republican Women scholarship.

 

[Hypnautic]

https://www.dar.org/national-society/what-we-do
https://www.dar.org/national-society/scholarships/general-info

 

[500bbc]

My mom was a member of DAR.

 

[angiebaby]

I have ancestors who fought in the revolution, but I've looked into DAR and it seemed pretty intensive. It seems you have to have birth/marriage certs to show connection to your relatives from that era. My 10th or 11th great-grandparents came over on the second boat of immigrants which became the Massachussetts Bay Colony. He allegedly built the first Christian church in America. Butchered by a Native they took into the house. Wife and daughter survived the attack, though injured. I figured I would wait until I retire to go through the paperwork. I think I have to find the most recent person I am related to who has done it, and then prove I'm related to that person.

 

[Bpracing1127]

I’m a verified SAR (sons of American revolution) took a while to track down but finally did it a couple years ago

 

[PlanB]

I have a relative that fought at Lexington and am also a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. I have a copy of a pay chit from the march to Lexington that shows how much my relative was paid. A relative on my dad's side of the family traveled around the country tracking down all of our history. She had binders full of stuff she had collected. I should have applied for membership to the Sons of The American Revolution, but I lost contact with her when my dad died, and she lives in Massachusetts. I wish I had copies of all the stuff she had collected.

 

[500bbc]

I think my family tree was traced back to the 1600's here and then back to England and Scotland.
I have a shit load of paperwork I need to go through inherited from my folks.

 

[SnoC653]

My Grandmother and Mother were members. Mom was signed up by grandma and didn't pursue doing anything with them. Grandma was very active before she passed. She told me DAR makes a big deal about the way the members ancestors came to the country.

 

[mjc]

My ex wife is related to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, so my sons are related but not me. Don't know what that would actually do for anything or anyone.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Well My GGG grandfather Emanual was a French/Canuck fur trader and dragged a Squaw back to Michigan from the northwest territories .... so there

 

[BoatCop]

My wife has several family links back to the US Revolution. Her entire family is either original American Settlers or Native. Her 10th Great Grandfather, Francis Gabriel Holland, was among those that founded Jamestown in the 1600s. Several of her "Caudill" (her maiden name) ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. A DAR Chapter in Tennessee is named after her 7th Great Grandmother, Cherokee Beloved Woman, Nanyehi Kingfisher, AKA Nancy Ward.

My family is pretty much all immigrants to the US, however there are some of my ancestors who were First Settlers to New France, AKA Canada, in the 1500s-1600s, and some are also Canadian First Nation Native.

 

[BoatCop]

Well My GGG grandfather Emanual was a French/Canuck fur trader and dragged a Squaw back to Michigan from the northwest territories .... so there

Mine were similarly situated. There are a few of my French Canadian ancestors that "intermarried" with the Natives in Ontario, and down into Michigan and Wisconsin. In one case, my 4th Great Grandmother, an Ottawa Indian Slave, was "defiled" by her owner's 13 year old nephew. My Great x3 Grandfather was a product of one of those events. That part of my family eventually settled in the UP, primarily Negaunee, Bessemer, and Iron Mountain, before winding up in Marquette.

In the olden days, the French Settlers/Traders often kept two families. They had their wives and kids in France, where they spent the winters, and their Native families in the New World, where they spent the springs-summers.

 

[Ballyhoo]

Men Can Now Join Daughters Of The American Revolution

DAR deviates from female patriotism to performative inclusivity, putting yet another women's only space in jeopardy.

thefederalist.com

My wife was a member for a number of years. This recent decision by DAR has led to many members, including my wife, to leave the organization.

 

[79 HUSTLER]

Whoa...WTF!

 

[stephenkatsea]

I have a number of ancestors who were Colonists and faught in the Revolution. My maternal grandmother was very active in the Woman's Relief Corps to the Grand Army of the Republic, WRC. Their mission was serving Veterans of the Civil War. My older brother recalls attending functions with our grandmother and actually meeting Civil War Veterans. Believe the last Civil War Vet died in the mid 1950s.

 

[Bakotrash]

My mom is a member.

 

[crzy2bealive]

I have never even heard of this! Super interesting.