Today I attended a DAR workshop at my local genealogy
library. I was told that my ancestor is a Revolutionary Patriot, and a
gentleman by that name is indeed a Patriot. But I need to prove that I am
related to that Patriot. I can get easily to his grandson, but then it’s the
final two steps that I need to prove.
For those of you that don’t know what is required for DAR,
you start with yourself and you go back to your Patriot. For the first 3-4
generations, you need to have a birth, marriage and death certificate for both
spouses. So even though it’s my ancestor, I need to supply a birth certificate
for my spouse along with our marriage certificate. Good news, it doesn’t have
to be certified. Therefore, I photocopied the documents that I have. I was able
to easily do myself and husband along with my parents. But then I don’t have
all the documents that DAR needs. For the remaining generations, I just need to
prove child/parent relationships and only need I document. So I have decided to
obtain each generation before worrying about the generations that I haven’t
proved yet, but was told to be true. So I guess this is how I am going to try to break through my brick walls.
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