Are you a Son (or Daughter) of the American Revolution?
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yes. I did the research and documentation for one of my ancestors to get into the SAR but let my membership lapse. They still come after me for membership fees.
I did all the kinds of research you mentioned years ago. I was in and out of court houses and county libraries all over central pennsylvania and I even went out to the mormon geneological center in salt lake city. (I wish I had gone there first. they have all the records in one place.)
But then I hired a geneologist to fill out the application.
For some reason I found that task to be more daunting.
That’s awesome. But yeah, it’s costly $$$ wise.
My ancestors were fairly well-to-do Puritans who arrived in Boston in 1632. They went on to found the city of Milford, Connecticut, New Haven Colony in 1638.
They collectively bought the land from the Paugussett Indians. They formed a trading post and farmed. AND kept an eye out for the Dutch trying to do the same up from New Amsterdam. They’d occasionally took musket fire at each other, but no one was ever killed, according to history.
Like Austin Powers, the hated the Dutch.