Ester, I would appreciate any time you can spare. I have traced my line back to Boston Sebastian Graves (for whom the DAR provided a cemetery marker). I have documented each generation with documents such as census, court records, boundary lines for property, birth or death certificates, wills naming heirs etc. keeping as much as possible to primary documents. I would like to submit it but would appreciate an "experienced" eye looking it over. We currently live in Reston, Va. but will be moving to Gainsville, Georgia (outside of Atlanta, Ga.) sometime in May or June. Thanks, Nancy Murray (culleoka4gen@comcast.net) -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Ester Eads" <ekeads@classicnet.net> > I am a new Registrar for my local chapter of the DAR and I had my research > accepted in 2005. I was able to prove a birth date using a census. I used > an 1880 census to establish my great grandfather and his sons (my > grandfather wasn't born at that time). Then there was no census for 1890 > that would help me, but the 1900 census had my grandfather living in the > home of his brother (and the relationship was stated on the census.) With > that information I provided a statement with the application to explain the > relationship. A census is a legal document. > > This just shows that you can get a little creative when you have to. > > I am told that the strictness of the DAR genealogist varies and if you get a > tough one it's very hard. > > My chapter offers help with the research. If I may be of any assistance to > anyone, please let me know. > > Ester > > > List Mom for the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION mailing list: > Diana Boothe philsbarbie1@arkansasfamilies.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We have archives! Search for your AMERICAN-REVOLUTION information here..... > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AMERICAN-REVOLUTION > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most helpful > site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message