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The National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America’s future through better education for children. Today, more than one million women have joined through more than three thousand chapters around the world. These women work to further causes in historic preservation, education, and patriotism. 

Any woman eighteen years or older, regardless of race, religion or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution is eligible to join the DAR. The DAR can help you start a search of your family tree or assist with completion this project. The DAR’s Genealogical Research System (GRS) includes free online databases containing information on American Revolutionary War Patriots, descendants of those Patriots, as well as other genealogical resources in the DAR Library. Contact the Tennessee Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution or the General James Robertson Chapter, NSDAR for more information. 

DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Vintage illustration featuring the surrender of Lord Charles Cornwallis and the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which ended the last major campaign of the American Revolutionary War.