In a message dated 4/1/2006 12:04:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, cpettit@telis.net writes: Perhaps a re-statement of what others have alluded to.. There are some patriots who have been mixed up with the wrong men- - perhaps they had the same name- at any rate there are certain person where proof of a relation to particular previously accetted patriot is no longer being accepted - additional proof of the patriot in question is being scrutinized... I do know of several particular persons whose DAR records are now under scruitny - most of the problems seem to arrive when others descending from another person of the same name comes up with proof that shows that the intitial DAR patriot is not the same man... Paul Pettit Paul- That is not the only reason for denial of new applications when an ancestor had previously been accepted. When the proof requirements were tightened up some ancestors were no longer acceptable unless new proof of service could be supplied. For instance, I initially applied to DAR using one ancestor who was in the Patriot Index based on an application that had been approved in the early 1980s. They had subsequently found that this ancestor had been fined for not showing up for duty. Unless I could supply proof that he later showed up and served they refused my application. So I switched to another ancestor who had received a pension (Frederick LEADER of Lancaster County) and that was considered much better proof and was accepted. Joan