There are a lot of different record sources out there you can use to discover your ancestors. Some of them are well known, others are lesser known, and some are totally unknown and you may be the first person to accidentally come across them in generations. One of the lesser known record sources for discovering your ancestors are the application papers for the Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR). This lineage society admits women ages 18 and older who can definitively prove with documentary evidence that they are directly genetically descended from someone who either fought in the American Revolution or who was instrumentally involved in helping the cause of independence during the war...
