As DAR members we are told that our applications and the information on them are property of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Now occasionally the DAR publishes the material as they did in these books; and sometimes Chapters do (but I suspect that the chapter get permission from the National Society to do that). While one may not be able to get a copywrite on the dates, someone put those dates and people together in a way to construct a lineage. Ancestry states on their Web Page that either the material belongs to them or the original source and can be used only to construct one's own family research. Virginia