Dear All:
This was sent to me and I was told to pass it on.
Carol - list & board manager
Some volunteers from the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
( DAR)
have established a wonderful new program for users of Rootsweb. These
volunteers will do lookups in their database and records if you
think one of your ancestors served in some capacity during the
American Revolution. These volunteers have more databases that are
available to them than the ones commonly used by the search engines.
The process is fairly simple :
Go to the DAR message board:
There are two ways to do that:
www.rootsweb.com
message boards
topics
organizations and societies
DAR
Or if you want the easy way :-)
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organiz...
Address your message as follows:
subject : DAR Lookup > surname> location > dates
In the body of the message put the information regarding
the person,
Be sure to fill out the surnames box at the bottom since the
new search engine will be keying on that item.
Leave the email response box checked and you will be
notified when the DAR volunteers respond . Give them
a week or so to get to your request.
We really appreciate their efforts. This info can be key for:
a: joining these prestigious organizations ( DAR & SAR)
b: sending a request for the copies of the files that were
submitted and the information they have available.
Many thanks to:
Glenda Thompson DAR VIS Volunteer
Vice Chrm. Patriot Lookup
for organizing this effort and all the many volunteers that
are donating their time and effort to us instead of pursuing
their own ancestors,
Best Regards
John A Hansen
DAR board admin.