have you checked the m-804 series of Revolutionar War Pension Files, Select and Non-Select? ----- Original Message ----- From: "tori counts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] DAR look ups > No index is absolutely complete! I have found this over and over again searching through records. To be sure you must check the records them selves. Only you know your family!!! > All of us who do look up's do our best to help others, but we are not infallible, we miss things, connections, family, etc you might have found. > I know for a fact I have more than 1 ancestor, who used their middle name on a census, and if I had not been careful, would have missed it completely. > The more you include in your request the better your chances > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [INDIANA] DAR look ups > > I have been looking for my ggg grandfather that is listed in books and online > in the Valley Forge site as a Rev War Vet. However I try, the DAR has no > record of him nor suggestion where I might find him. I did get a suggestion > from a researcher that heard my story and she personally checked on my > grandfather while in DC. She said that she asked for info they said at the > office did not exhist but she proved them wrong. She tells me that NO one > has applied to DAR for a Partiot status and that I can do that which will get > him in the DAR books. One lady in 5 days did that for me when 4 other > researchers that were of the DAR membership did find me nothing and did not > know why. SO if you read the underlined words you will know that they do not > garentee that they will find your ancestor. I will say they did find a man > with same name but he lived, m., raised children and died in Delaware, USA > and mine died in Indiana, USA. > > Beej > > > <A HREF="http://www.dar.org/cgi-bin/natsociety/PI_lookup.cfm">Patriot Index > Lookup Service</A> > > The DAR Patriot Index contains names of Revolutionary patriots, both men and > women, whose service (between 1775 and 1783) has been established by the > National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. > > > ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== > Firstmom's Genealogy Resources - Indiana > http://khuish.tripod.com/indiana.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== > To remove yourself from the list, type: > unsubscribe > in the first line of the message - NOTHING ELSE. > Send it to: > [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >