My aunt was a big wig in the DAR in a county of the Southern Tier of NYS. That was back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I have all her paperwork, and Sis and I could use that to join, but we never have.
I was going to start the process with the local chapter here, but the woman were ultra snooty. 🙄😁 I was done.
In the 1990s mother was able to trace her family back to the 1740s.
At least one member served in the Revolutionary war, and the family percolated through Maryland W Virginia and ended up farming in Missouri then ranching in Colorado. My blue collar family lived in an old farmhouse so while we had some history and the genealogy we did not have any shiny social credentials. (Mother did not have a particularly rich wardrobe either.)
What Mother did love was her mother.'s (my grandmother's) stories of growing up on a ranch, and then a town, in NE Colorado.
but the woman were ultra snooty
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I hear ya! But (I’m hopeful) that “snooty” group is about to get a big jolt (awakening?) from us peons.
DAR - and the papers to gather back in the 60s were wicked hard to get together...now a days, it would be a snap.