Search Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, 1890 - 1921

With each result, you will be able to view the original lineage books published by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The books include the names of DAR members, officers, and state regents. You will find the following information about your ancestor:

• Member’s name
• Birth place
• Spouse’s name
• Parents’ names
• Grandparents’ name
• Family lineage
• Description of your ancestor who participated in the American Revolutions

The DAR acknowledges those who signed the Declaration of Independence, veterans of the Revolutionary War, civil servants of the provisional or State governments, signers of the Oath of Allegiance or Oath of Fidelity and Support, participants in the Boston Tea Party, prisoners of war, refugees, doctors and nurses, as well as others who assisted the Revolutionary cause.

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The Daughters of the American was first formed in 1890 in Washington DC. Within the collection, you will find the very first lineage volume. The organisation was formed on the anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America and incorporated by an Act of Congress in 1896. In 1891, the DAR had 818 members. Today, that membership exceeds 930,000 members.

Their first volume explains that the DAR’s aim is to: ‘To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence…To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to the American people, “to promote, as an object of primary importance, an institution for the general diffusion of knowledge”. To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty’.

It also explains the Daughters of the American Revolution seal. You will see it at the beginning of every volume. ‘The seal of the Society shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, charged with the figure of a dame of the Revolutionary time sitting at her spinning-wheel, with thirteen stars above her, the whole surrounded by a rim containing the legend, “Daughters of the American Revolution, 1776-1890”, and the motto “Home and Country”’.