Eligibility For DAR

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership organization of women dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education, and patriotism. Chapters of DAR are implied by raising funds for local purses and educational rewards, by preserving the historical properties and worked objects and by supporting patriotism within their communities. DAR has chapters in each of the fifty of the states of the US as well as in the zone of Colombia. There are also DAR chapters in Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. DAR's motto is "God, Home, and Country." Some state chapters of DAR date from as early as October 11, 1890, and the National Society of DAR was incorporated by Congressional charter in 1896. The national company of DAR is the final referee of the acceptability of all the requests for adhesion. Adhesion in DAR is open women at least eighteen years which can prove the lineal descent of bloodline of an ancestor who facilitated by carrying out the independence of the United States. The acceptable ancestors include various relative categories of the known historical figures, including:

• Signers of the United States Declaration of Independence;
• Military veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including State navies and militias, local militias, privateers, and French or Spanish French Revolution and sailors who fought in the American theater of war;
• Civil servants of provisional or State governments;
• Members of the Continental Congress and State conventions and assemblies;
• Signers of Oaths of Allegiance or Oaths of Fidelity and Support;
• Participants in the Boston Tea Party;
• Prisoners of war, refugees, and defenders of forts and frontiers; doctors and nurses who aided Revolutionary casualties; and ministers, petitioners;
• And others who gave material or patriotic support to the Revolutionary cause.