on 3/4/02 3:01 PM, Mary Hill at [email protected] wrote: > I am hoping that there may be some of you who have experience in applying for > the DAR. > > I am interested in joining the DAR. > > I have proof of my parents, and my grandparents with some being bible records, > birth and death certificates. I have proof of my great-grandparents through > birth records and death records. > Now for my question. My great-grandfather is listed on an 1850 census where I > have his mother's name. On his death certicate her name is simply stated as > "Mrs. Taylor." I have no idea when she died, died in MS exact county unknown, > and there is no birth record in the form of bible or court records. I have no > exact record of when she married but can estimate by birth dates of children. > Her grandfather was a revoluntary war hero and is definately linked to him, > but legal documents I have none other than census records. Can letters from > now deceased family members be sufficient proof for linking this woman to her > grandfather? > > Best Regards, > Mary > Mary, I believe the first thing you should do is check with the DAR. I understand that you only have to document yourself from the undocumented ancestors. In other words, if your revolutionary war ancestor has another descendent who documented for DAR, you only have to document where you branch off from that menber. In other words, if your grandmother was a member, you only have to document you and your parent. They don't make you duplicate work. You can submit a request on your ancestor, and they may tell you that some of the work (the oldest stuff at that!) was done for you. My daughter will qualify for DAR once she's 18. She's only three, so I still have time to get my act together! Good luck!

"In other words, if your grandmother was a member, you only have to document you and your parent. They don't make you duplicate work. " Two years ago, a friend of mine found that the DAR didn't accept its own records, in her line anyway, because some of DAR's earlier members were admitted without the careful scrutiny their records should have had. So, please be warned, there is a chance that DAR may ask you prove a line of descent that is supposedly already documented in their records. I cannot estimate whether than chance is large or small. Best wishes, Mark Bramlette member of Sons of the Revolution through descent from Corporal, later Colonel Isaac Greene and his son, Pvt. James Greene, of Warwick, Rhode Island, and working on joining the Sons of the American Revolution through descent from John Tucker and John Foster of Vermont ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom and Carrie Tucker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: [TUCKER-L] DAR Question > on 3/4/02 3:01 PM, Mary Hill at [email protected] wrote: > > > I am hoping that there may be some of you who have experience in applying

on 3/4/02 8:15 PM, Mark Bramlette at [email protected] wrote: > Two years ago, a friend of mine found that the DAR didn't accept its own > records, Ugh! This sounds frighteningly similar to trying to get licensure from the Massachusetts Board of Education. Horrors. Carrie Tucker list moderator

Carrie, you probably saw my response to someone else on here that has helped me understand the DAR, but I no one in my family line is in the DAR. I will have to go all the way back. I just don't know what I could submit to prove beyond a doubt that my GG grandmother is the grand-daughter of the Patriot since I don't have a marriage record, birth record I can say abt. because she is on the 1850 census, but I have no death record and there is no bible record to indicate she is a descendant. Thanks for your input, Mary --- Tom and Carrie Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > on 3/4/02 3:01 PM, Mary Hill at [email protected] wrote: > > > I am hoping that there may be some of you who have experience in applying for > > the DAR. > > > > I am interested in joining the DAR. > > > > I have proof of my parents, and my grandparents with some being bible records, > > birth and death certificates. I have proof of my great-grandparents through > > birth records and death records. > > Now for my question. My great-grandfather is listed on an 1850 census where I > > have his mother's name. On his death certicate her name is simply stated as > > "Mrs. Taylor." I have no idea when she died, died in MS exact county unknown, > > and there is no birth record in the form of bible or court records. I have no > > exact record of when she married but can estimate by birth dates of children. > > Her grandfather was a revoluntary war hero and is definately linked to him, > > but legal documents I have none other than census records. Can letters from > > now deceased family members be sufficient proof for linking this woman to her > > grandfather? > > > > Best Regards, > > Mary > > > > Mary, I believe the first thing you should do is check with the DAR. I > understand that you only have to document yourself from the undocumented > ancestors. In other words, if your revolutionary war ancestor has another > descendent who documented for DAR, you only have to document where you > branch off from that menber. In other words, if your grandmother was a > member, you only have to document you and your parent. They don't make you > duplicate work. You can submit a request on your ancestor, and they may > tell you that some of the work (the oldest stuff at that!) was done for you. > > My daughter will qualify for DAR once she's 18. She's only three, so I > still have time to get my act together! > > Good luck! > > > ==== TUCKER Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER: Quote only the relative part of the message you are > replying to, not the entire message. This will help conserve > space on Rootsweb's servers. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ===== Researching: WEST/TUCKER/TAYLOR/GOBER/JAMES/FLEMING/REYNOLDS/WOMACK __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com

Dear Mary. I have recently been accepted in the DAR and possibly can help you. You will not be able to get birth certificates from the early years but it looks like you may have sufficient information that will get you in. You should go to a meeting of the DAR in your area and talk to the Registrar of that group. There is an application to fill out she can give you and, if you need help, she is the one can give you a lot of help. It took me 4 years of searching every place anyone told me to look, (church records, Hall of Records, mortuaries, ect) and finally got my information to get me in. You can find Land Holdings on records, the Mormon Church Geneology library is a good source for that. You need Wills and Probate notices. Anything that connects you to your GGGrandparents. It looks like you have a real good start. Good luck with your search. Claudia Turner P.S. I am a Tucker, too. What line do you come from? My early family came from Virginia. My GGGrandfather was Edward Sherrod Tucker, b 1777 in Appomatox Courthouse, Culpeper Co Va. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom and Carrie Tucker <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: [TUCKER-L] DAR Question > on 3/4/02 3:01 PM, Mary Hill at [email protected] wrote: > > > I am hoping that there may be some of you who have experience in applying for > > the DAR. > > > > I am interested in joining the DAR. > > > > I have proof of my parents, and my grandparents with some being bible records, > > birth and death certificates. I have proof of my great-grandparents through > > birth records and death records. > > Now for my question. My great-grandfather is listed on an 1850 census where I > > have his mother's name. On his death certicate her name is simply stated as > > "Mrs. Taylor." I have no idea when she died, died in MS exact county unknown, > > and there is no birth record in the form of bible or court records. I have no > > exact record of when she married but can estimate by birth dates of children. > > Her grandfather was a revoluntary war hero and is definately linked to him, > > but legal documents I have none other than census records. Can letters from > > now deceased family members be sufficient proof for linking this woman to her > > grandfather? > > > > Best Regards, > > Mary > > > > Mary, I believe the first thing you should do is check with the DAR. I > understand that you only have to document yourself from the undocumented > ancestors. In other words, if your revolutionary war ancestor has another > descendent who documented for DAR, you only have to document where you > branch off from that menber. In other words, if your grandmother was a > member, you only have to document you and your parent. They don't make you > duplicate work. You can submit a request on your ancestor, and they may > tell you that some of the work (the oldest stuff at that!) was done for you. > > My daughter will qualify for DAR once she's 18. She's only three, so I > still have time to get my act together! > > Good luck! > > > ==== TUCKER Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER: Quote only the relative part of the message you are > replying to, not the entire message. This will help conserve > space on Rootsweb's servers. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >