> To qualify for dar they have to have service (listed in a active > soldiers - > and there are many of those) or "provided aid and comfort" to soldiers" > which is how there are women patriots listed in dar. The "bar" is there > has > to be documented evidence. I had to get the enrollment papers from the > library of congress on one of my ancestors and he was listed with a group > of > other quakers from bucks county penns and it showed active service. >From a DAR website ( http://www.athensohiodar.org/other-ancestors.html): "Even if your ancestor wasn't one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, he would be recognized as a Patriot if he signed an Oath of Allegiance. In 1776 the Continental Congress requested each state to take an oath of allegiance from each of its male citizens over 21 years of age in order to determine the strength of the patriot movement and to identify the loyalists. Those who took such an oath, or signed local declarations of independence from England, were guilty of treason under English law and subject to death by hanging." Mark