Thanks so much for the input! Golly you fellows are speedy! The reason for my quest: several months ago my husband Dan--the Treadaway descendant--saw a program on the History Channel which dealt in part with the Sons of the American Revolution. Dan, being an old American History teacher, thought that was just the kind of thing he would be interested in. So I began hunting down documents which would establish his genealogical link to Daniel Treadaway--Dan's gggg grandfather--who was in the Revolutionary War. Thus far I have managed to accumulate a fairly nice collection of Marriage Records, together with a certified copy of Thomas Treadaway's Will from 1874, Land Patents for Thomas Treadaway and his son James M., several Death Records, and as many census records as I can find. I have sent off to the National Archives for a copy of Daniel's Revolutionary War papers, but it will be some months, I'm sure, before I receive them. The volume of requests and the backlog at the NARA must be truly monumental. My major problem--as I see i! t, anyway--is a definitive linking of Thomas to Daniel. In the Clarice Cox book there is a copy of a record made by Francis Marion (Frank) Treadaway in which he speaks of his grandfather Daniel who "was a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary War" and his uncle Thomas; I'm hoping that this will be accepted as a legitimate document--we'll see. As far as I have been able to determine, Daniel Treadaway/Treadway has not been the source of membership for anyone in either the SAR or the DAR. If I am able to accomplish this endeavor, it will perhaps make things easier for future (or current) Daniel Treadaway descendants who might be interested in doing the same thing. Naturally, the DAR and SAR want copies of original documents rather than anything simply printed off the internet--or at least that is my understanding. Sharon