In a message dated 2/16/99 8:19:26 PM Mountain Standard Time, VaGreen100@aol.com writes: << Over the years the DAR has improved its requirements for it standards of proofs; but one must be very careful about old application. Virginia Green VaGreen100@aol.com Tampa, FL Registrar for DeSoto Chapter, NSDAR >> I was told that IF the name is in the new (1990, or later) DAR book, it is documented. The others have been removed. I asked for one name that was in the early book, ca, 1966) that was no longer listed in the 1990 DAR Patriot Index. So it appears that that problem has been corrected, since I rec'd one application that said <in so many words> "it isn't documented but here it is".. Ellie Stites Swanger, Coordinator AOL Online Lookups for DAR EllieSS@aol.com