The main purpose of the Genealogical
Records Committee is to collect a variety
of previously non-published genealogical
records for submission to the DAR Library
in Washington, DC. It’s intended use is to
be a resource of help for processing
applications and supplementals.
Acceptable records
include records of deeds; marriages;
probates; court orders and minute books;
town council minutes; parish registers
of vital records; vestry minutes or
session books; bible records; church
records; funeral home records; school
censuses; tombstone inscriptions and
cemetery records, diaries, papers and
letters found in manuscript collections.
The GRC welcomes all daughters to
submit images or abstracts of unpublished
original records of genealogical value and
to help transcribe images of records. If a
member cumulatively submits 100 pages
(e.g., submits 50 pages of images and 50
pages of transcription or transcribes 100
pages) to the GRC, you qualify for this
pin.
Initially the DAR accepted books to the
DAR library, but there was overlap with
later published sources, most of the
sources remain unique to DAR.
- The GRC reports submitted now
are not books. GRC Reports are
collections of related records in a
database. Records may now be
submitted for points without
transcribing or assembling a volume!
Creating a complete GRC volume,
end-to-end, is no longer required.
If you know of unpublished genealogical
records that can be submitted, you can now
earn an award for telling us about them!
Did you know there are now five ways to
earn Committee pins??
You can
- photograph or scan records, turn
them into pages,
- abstract them,
- transcribe them,
- assemble a volume,
- or index a volume.
The Committee's greatest volunteer need is
for members who can transcribe hand-written
documents. If you can read
cursive,
you can transcribe!
Thank you for helping us shine a light to
illuminate our legacy of providing evidence
for applications and supplementals.
**The
instructions for copying source records
can be found on the DAR website at these
links:
