I received this announcement from another list and thought you'd like to know. Tink Miller >"After nearly a decade of scanning, indexing, and other >behind-the-scenes work by DAR members and employees, the Daughters >of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the availability >of the DAR Genealogical Research System on our public website. Here >are the direct links: > >http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm or www.dar.org (and >click on the Library button at the top, then the second tab in the >left-hand column). > >The GRS is a growing collection of databases that provide access to >many materials collected by the DAR over the past 119 years. >Included in this collection of databases is the GRC National Index >which has been available to researchers for the past few years. >There are still some kinks we're working out here and there. > >When you go to the link above, you will find several tabs that will >enable searching in the various databases: > >Ancestor - established DAR Revolutionary War Ancestors and basic >information about them with listings of the applications submitted >by descendants who joined the DAR [updated daily] > >Member - limited access to information on deceased/former DAR >members - not current members. > >Descendants - index of generations in applications between the DAR >member and the Revolutionary War ancestor. There is much eighteenth >and nineteenth-century information here. [ongoing indexing project] > >GRC - everyname index to 20,000 typescript volumes (some still being >indexed) of genealogical records such as cemeteries, Bibles, etc. >This index is not limited to the period of the American Revolution at all. > >Resources [In particular, the digitized DAR Library Revolutionary >Pension Extract Card Index and the Analytical Index Cards. Other >information sources will be coming in the near future, mostly >relating to Revolutionary War service, bibliographies, Forgotten >Patriots (updates), etc. Read the introductions to these to learn >why these are both important genealogical indexes. For example, the >Rev. War pension index includes the names of people mentioned in >those pensions that were abstracted (not just the pensioner or widow)!!!!] > >Library Catalog - our book, periodical, and manuscript holdings > >Each of these has interrelated content, and a description of each is >given more fully on the website. You will notice restricted >information in many search results. This is the result of a >concerted effort to protect the identity of our members while >providing historical genealogical information to researchers. > >The national numbers of members (without the names of living >members) given in the search results are needed to order copies of >applications and supplemental applications. They do not lead online >researchers to any other information about the member. > >Please pass this information on to your researchers. > >Eric > >Eric G. Grundset >Library Director >DAR Library >National Society Daughters of the American Revolution >1776 D Street, N. W. >Washington, DC 20006-5303 > >egrundset@dar.org >202-879-3313