[ohioWfan]

I was under the impression that you only had to have one ancestor who fought in the Revolution now, but maybe I'm wrong.

I know it used to be elitest and racist, and also assumed it still had remnants of that, but I have no evidence to back that up (and you know what they say about those who assume :)........

[patriciaruth]

We have two direct ancestors, father and son, who were in the Connecticut militia and served in the Revolutionary War.

But I still have the impression that the DAR didn't want anyone with recent immigrant blood breaking into their conclave back in the old days.