Dear All: Some volunteers from the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) have established a wonderful new program for users of Rootsweb. These volunteers will do lookups in their database and records if you think one of your ancestors served in some capacity during the American Revolution. These volunteers have more databases available to them than those commonly used by the search engines. The process is fairly simple : Go to the DAR message board: There are two ways to do that: www.rootsweb.com message boards topics organizations and societies DAR Or lift this URL:-) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar Address your message as follows: subject : DAR Lookup > surname> location > dates In the body of the message copy the information regarding the person and be sure to fill out the surnames box at the bottom since the search engine will be keying on that item. Leave the email response box checked and you will be notified when a DAR volunteer responds. Allow a week or so for them to get to your request. We really appreciate their efforts. This info can be a key for a) joining the organizations (DAR & SAR) b) sending a request for copies of the files that were submitted and the information they have available. Many thanks to: Glenda Thompson, DAR VIS Volunteer, Vice Chrm. Patriot Lookup for organizing this effort and all the many volunteers that are donating their time and effort to us instead of pursuing their own ancestors. Best Regards John A. Hansen DAR board admin. BTW: Please forward this message to other lists and boards that you are involved in. Pass along a word of thanks to each volunteer that does this work and especially the one that responds to your post. It would probably be highly appreciated.