I saw this on another web site and am just opassing it on for those who might be interested. Gordon Crooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blah BlahBlah" <olgc1964@gmail.com> To: <md-fred-gen@rootsweb.com>; <mdcarrol@rootsweb.com>; <mdfreder@rootsweb.com>; <mdwashin@rootsweb.com>; <baltocity@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:34 AM Subject: [MDFR] FYI: DAR Genealogical Research System now available & also an online index to GRC Index database (20million names and counting) > Happy New Year, everyone. > > Thought this might be of interest to some. > > Sam > > ============================================== >>From the Dec. 2009 newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: > > DAR Releases Genealogical Research System > The Daughters of the American Revolution have posted the DAR > Genealogical Research System (GRS) on its site. The GRS includes > information collected by the DAR since its inception in 1890 organized > in three databases: one each for: ancestors, members, and descendants. > > The ancestor database contains information from verified membership > applications and supplemental applications. The member database allows > limited searching of members ancestor records, while the descendants > database indexes names from the lineage page of DAR applications and > supplementals. > > At present the descendants database includes lineage information from > original applications with national numbers 370001 through 868280 > along with lineages from 120000 supplemental applications; > approximately 4500 new names are added to this database daily, so > check back often. > > [end of article] > > Not given in the article: The URL is: > http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm and the descendants > database as of today has over 7,100,000 names. > direct link to the ancestors database: > http://216.36.105.133/DAR_Research/search/?Tab_ID=1 > direct link to the descendants database: > http://216.36.105.133/DAR_Research/Search/ > > =========================================== > http://216.36.105.133/DAR_Research/search/?Tab_ID=6 > > Info about the GRC Index: > > GRC Database Overview > The GRC Database is an every name index of the GRC Books housed in the > DAR Library. Currently, volunteers to the Genealogical Research > Committee have indexed 20% ofthe books and have entered more than 20 > million names. > > These typescripts contain a tremendous amount of unique genealogical > material, much of it gleaned from gravestones, family Bibles, and > personal collections. DAR members gather together information > accessible to them where they live, through family connections, or in > their own genealogical papers. In the course of a year, approximately > 300 new reports arrive at the GRC office of the DAR Library for > addition to the collection. > > Each entry in the database is linked to the library catalog. Click on > the link and users can find more information about the book in which > the name was found. > Visit www.MidMdRoots.com > for Old Court Records, Tombstone > Inscriptions, Old Newspaper items, etc > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDFREDER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.136/2616 - Release Date: 01/12/10 07:35:00