>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:00:33 -0400 >From: [email protected] (Lynda McGinnis) >Subject: DAR Records >... >Hi cousins, > The best way to find out what proof exsists at the DAR is to either >visit the library in person or, a member can write and request a >photocopy of any documents of proof contained in the veteran's file. >Unfortunately, the older the DAR application is, the less likely that >there was ever any real proof submitted to substantiate the lineage. > > Fortunately, the DAR has stopped this careless practice of believing >what ever people claimed as their ancestral lines. For the past several >years they have required that every application be accompanied with >mountains of proof for every date, location, name, link, etc.. >Unfortunately, for the Thomas Robblee >line, there is not likely going to be anything in the file. I will write >to see >if there is and will let you know. As for William Robblee, the most >recently >submitted lineage on him is probably my own :-) Everything that I >submitted has >been sent to Cindy for the database. >Lynda