Hi folks, Just to let you know, the list is alive and well, though quiet as always in the summer time. If you are receiving this message, you are still subscribed to the Scotch Irish list. In today's RootsWeb Review, sent out free from Rootsweb (www.rootsweb.com)is an article about the DAR Message board. EH??? What's that?? Fur our Cousins: it's the mirror image of the UEL (United Empire Loyalists) -- the folks who were displaced by the American Revolution who moved to Canada. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a huge organization that can only be joined by proving your descent from a soldier or helper in the American Revolution (on George W's side, not the other George.....geez, I almost left it at "George's side", now that'd be confusing!). Thus genealogy is of vast interest to members, would be members, and folks just hoping to find a trace of evidence to suggest that their ancestor was not raised in a petri dish on a UFO..... Here's a bit about their free message board where volunteers do lookups in their index. (You can go to a library or use Ancestry to do this yerself). > 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: > Utilizing the DAR Message Board > By Glenda Thompson, NSDAR Vice Chairman. VIS Committee >The goal of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution >(NSDAR) is to promote patriotism, historic preservation, and education. >Its headquarters are located in Washington, DC and occupies an entire >city block near the White House. It is the largest group of buildings >owned and maintained exclusively by women. More than 836,000 women have >joined the DAR since it was founded in 1890. With 168,000 members in >3,000 chapters in all 50 states and District of Columbia, it also has >international chapters in Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, >France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Untied Kingdom. >Membership in the DAR honors and preserves the legacy of patriot >ancestors. It is an opportunity to establish one's lineage and heritage >as a descendant of a patriot of the American Revolution. The "DAR >Patriot Index" records contain names of patriots (men and women) whose >service from 1775-1783 has been proven for DAR membership. >Would you like to know if your ancestor is listed with the NSDAR? A >helpful group of organized DAR Volunteer Information Specialists (VIS) >monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup >requests. They use the most current records as the previously published >books are no longer up to date. They may be able to offer suggestions >about where you might look for additional data. >Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, >spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence >when posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining >the NSDAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar ---- Me again....I have a couple patriot lines but haven't had time to prove our lineage back to any of them good enough to join the DAR. My mother hopes our John ANderson (your's ain't likely to be mine: there were 7 of them in Cumberland alone at the time of the American Revolution. Mine moved to Westmoreland by 1785) is one but he was a Covenantor (founded first society west of the Alleghenies) and so far we're still sorting out Johns in Cumberland Co though I've not had time to do any work due to working on other people's. I've learned a LOT doing that so many our next battle will result in a victory. They say 1/3rd of the folks in the colonies supported George W. 1/3rd were neutral (Among them many pietist German religious), and 1/3rd loyalists. So while Americans like to haunt the halls of the DAR.....you're only searching through 1/3rd of the population. Check the loyalists. I've found the fastest way to do that is to use www.genealogy.com on line or the CD they produced with a large compendium of the 'basic' loyalist lit. The NEHGS in Boston has a large collection of loyalist books too but it costs gas money and turnpike fees to get to the T stop, an ever rising fee to take the T in, plus the impossible to resist cost of eating a meal in Boston before returning......Sigh. (No $15 doorfee at least as I am a member) Some colonies had mandatory militia service for men in a broad age group so the military recs of the period in some areas serve as a census. Pennsylvania has very good militia records for the Cumberland area where our ancestors lived. You can search them free on line (see http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle for the URL and some search aids). So your ancestor if around probably had to be real good at evading the locals looking for militia men. There are also loyality oaths but they do not include men serving in the Continental Lines, apparently as they had already taken an oath. The DAR chapters work tirelessly to transcribe local records including cemetery transcriptions. I got a 1 foot high stack of Western PA transcriptions from my mother. I hope she owns Xerox stock. Sometimes you can find stuff in the DAR state collections that are not indexed individually in LDS. LDS also has a wonderful set of fiche that index a large collection of early South Carolina records collected by the DAR. So there's a lot more to the DAR than their lineage work. Also.... * * * >TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of IRELAND. >This is a complete online text of the 1837 edition of Samuel >Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php Enjoy! 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I don't think it's George's side but the winning side - our patriots. Judith Brown "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him." - Ronald Reagan "The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." --C. L. De Montesquieu -----Original Message----- From: Linda Merle [mailto:merle@mail.fea.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:29 AM To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Sc-Ir] DAR Message Board Lookups and Irish Typographical Dictionary Hi folks, Just to let you know, the list is alive and well, though quiet as always in the summer time. If you are receiving this message, you are still subscribed to the Scotch Irish list. In today's RootsWeb Review, sent out free from Rootsweb (www.rootsweb.com)is an article about the DAR Message board. EH??? What's that?? Fur our Cousins: it's the mirror image of the UEL (United Empire Loyalists) -- the folks who were displaced by the American Revolution who moved to Canada. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a huge organization that can only be joined by proving your descent from a soldier or helper in the American Revolution (on George W's side, not the other George.....geez, I almost left it at "George's side", now that'd be confusing!). Thus genealogy is of vast interest to members, would be members, and folks just hoping to find a trace of evidence to suggest that their ancestor was not raised in a petri dish on a UFO..... Here's a bit about their free message board where volunteers do lookups in their index. (You can go to a library or use Ancestry to do this yerself). > 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: > Utilizing the DAR Message Board > By Glenda Thompson, NSDAR Vice Chairman. VIS Committee >The goal of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution >(NSDAR) is to promote patriotism, historic preservation, and education. >Its headquarters are located in Washington, DC and occupies an entire >city block near the White House. It is the largest group of buildings >owned and maintained exclusively by women. More than 836,000 women have >joined the DAR since it was founded in 1890. With 168,000 members in >3,000 chapters in all 50 states and District of Columbia, it also has >international chapters in Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, >France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Untied Kingdom. >Membership in the DAR honors and preserves the legacy of patriot >ancestors. It is an opportunity to establish one's lineage and heritage >as a descendant of a patriot of the American Revolution. The "DAR >Patriot Index" records contain names of patriots (men and women) whose >service from 1775-1783 has been proven for DAR membership. >Would you like to know if your ancestor is listed with the NSDAR? A >helpful group of organized DAR Volunteer Information Specialists (VIS) >monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup >requests. They use the most current records as the previously published >books are no longer up to date. They may be able to offer suggestions >about where you might look for additional data. >Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, >spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence >when posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining >the NSDAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar ---- Me again....I have a couple patriot lines but haven't had time to prove our lineage back to any of them good enough to join the DAR. My mother hopes our John ANderson (your's ain't likely to be mine: there were 7 of them in Cumberland alone at the time of the American Revolution. Mine moved to Westmoreland by 1785) is one but he was a Covenantor (founded first society west of the Alleghenies) and so far we're still sorting out Johns in Cumberland Co though I've not had time to do any work due to working on other people's. I've learned a LOT doing that so many our next battle will result in a victory. They say 1/3rd of the folks in the colonies supported George W. 1/3rd were neutral (Among them many pietist German religious), and 1/3rd loyalists. So while Americans like to haunt the halls of the DAR.....you're only searching through 1/3rd of the population. Check the loyalists. I've found the fastest way to do that is to use www.genealogy.com on line or the CD they produced with a large compendium of the 'basic' loyalist lit. The NEHGS in Boston has a large collection of loyalist books too but it costs gas money and turnpike fees to get to the T stop, an ever rising fee to take the T in, plus the impossible to resist cost of eating a meal in Boston before returning......Sigh. (No $15 doorfee at least as I am a member) Some colonies had mandatory militia service for men in a broad age group so the military recs of the period in some areas serve as a census. Pennsylvania has very good militia records for the Cumberland area where our ancestors lived. You can search them free on line (see http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle for the URL and some search aids). So your ancestor if around probably had to be real good at evading the locals looking for militia men. There are also loyality oaths but they do not include men serving in the Continental Lines, apparently as they had already taken an oath. The DAR chapters work tirelessly to transcribe local records including cemetery transcriptions. I got a 1 foot high stack of Western PA transcriptions from my mother. I hope she owns Xerox stock. Sometimes you can find stuff in the DAR state collections that are not indexed individually in LDS. LDS also has a wonderful set of fiche that index a large collection of early South Carolina records collected by the DAR. So there's a lot more to the DAR than their lineage work. Also.... * * * >TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of IRELAND. >This is a complete online text of the 1837 edition of Samuel >Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php Enjoy! 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