I happened to read the Eastman Online Genealogy newletter yesterday morning (on the Fourth of July, in the U.S.) as I was drinking my first cup of coffee and one of the articles was about finding your Revolutionary War patriots and reminded me of the DAR online site.\u00a0 So, since Judy and I are talking about a trip to Washington DC this fall, I thought I would start a list.<\/p>\n
I spent all of the morning and much of the afternoon down this rabbit hole, but it occurred to me that it was at least an appropriate activity for the Fourth of July.\u00a0 And I did work on getting the laundry done around my searching.\u00a0 Since both got done by the end of the afternoon, I feel like it was a productive day!<\/p>\n
I already have (somewhere) the DAR application from my collateral ancestor, Alberta Minor Flint.\u00a0 In addition, I have known for quite a long time that my ancestor Oliver Snow, was a Patriot, although I don\u2019t think I have any DAR papers from his line.\u00a0 These two possibilities are on my mother\u2019s side of the family.\u00a0 I also thought there were Revolutionary War soldiers on my father\u2019s side of the family tree, so it made sense to get organized and look at every possible man (by date of birth) in my direct ancestor line.\u00a0 I started looking at every man born 1760 or earlier, in the colonies or having migrated in before the end of the War.<\/p>\n
I created a note in a new Evernote notebook for the trip to Washington, and using the checkboxes created a list of names and DAR Ancestor numbers.\u00a0 I have one more part of the tree on my mother\u2019s side to explore and all of my father\u2019s (I think) is done.<\/p>\n
Next I will post about who is on my Patriots list and research what the information will allow me to discover onsite at the DAR Library this Fall.\u00a0 Since requesting the file online costs between $20-30, I\u2019m excited about possibly being able to look at and copy these files for myself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I happened to read the Eastman Online Genealogy newletter yesterday morning (on the Fourth of July, in the U.S.) as I was drinking my first cup of coffee and one of the articles was about finding your Revolutionary War patriots …<\/p>\n