Treasure Chest Thursday- Applications from Lineage Societies

One Treasure Chest of information that many researchers may overlook are the wonderful applications and related records submitted by other researchers to join a lineage society. Such societies include The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), The Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR), The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), and The Mayflower Society, just to name a few.

Potential members must not only prove their ancestors’ involvement in the particular event in history but also provide proof of lineage for each generation there after until the present day generation. There is such a great deal of information in these membership applications and subsequent supplemental applications of members. Each application provides an enormous amount of research- the most difficult part for non-members is finding these records.

I recently met a distant cousin that was willing to share their membership applications with me for my own potential membership. Those documents provided so much information for me that I did not know about my own family. I will be forever grateful for her kindness in sharing these records with me.

How can you find these documents? Each society has different guidelines for accessing an ancestor’s records so you’ll have to do some research as how to go about finding out what’s available. The point is that there may be a wealth of information out there already gathered about your ancestors. See what’s available!

I’ve included some helpful links to get you started:

http://www.hqudc.org/

http://www.dar.org/natsociety/default.cfm

http://www.sar.org/

http://www.scv.org/crg.php

http://www.themayflowersociety.com/

http://www.nsdac.org/

Treasure Chest Thursday- I've added my Family Tree online

For this week's "Treasure Chest Thursday," I am adding my own treasure- my own research. I have finally added my Family Tree online. I found a neat (and free) site that will allow me to share my Family Tree with others. It's called "Tribal Pages."



I have put off doing this because I didn't want people to simply copy and paste my names into their "name collector tree" of thousands of names without verifying any of my information. I will be glad to share all my sources but please don't copy and paste my Family Tree and call it your own. Our ancestors deserve more respect than that. Everyone wants to be remembered but I don't think anyone wants to be remembered incorrectly.

If you find any errors or have any questions, please let me know.

Simply click this image (in the column on the far left) to visit my Family Tree.

Treasure Chest Thursday

For my first "Treasure Chest Thursday," I thought about all my family's treasures. The one thing most important to me, is how I cherish the time we have been able to spend together. I treasure this picture of 4 generations together and know that one day my daughter will cherish this picture together with me, her grandfather and great-grandmother. We miss them both very much.