WOW! ~drooling~ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:37:02 -0700 > Subject: [HATCHER] DAR site......... > > > HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com > HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm > "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld > > Mary Ellen Cunningham just sent me this Christmas present - thank you! > > http://dar.org/library/online_research.cfm > > The DAR now has online their RW Patriots file with an explanation of those patriots who are now questionable based on some sloppy practices by the DAR years ago - accepting patriots with minimal and weak evidence. > > I remember in particular receiving a msg from a descendant of Vincent Allentharpe asking if I had proof of his service because the DAR would not accept her application piggybacking off another earlier accepted app, telling her she needed to prove his service. She was livid when I explained what the DAR had discovered and she INSISTED he was a patriot. His name is not even on the DAR site, questionable or otherwise. > > So do check their site before accepting old DAR records as a source for an ancestor or as proof of their service. > > Nel > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/