Calling all DAR daughters

Question

I am really excited to announce that we have now gotten permission to use stickers for ourselves and our DAR approved ancestors. I think we should challenge ourselves to find as many patriot ancestors as we can on WikiTree by the first of the new year. Here is what we can do:

• Add a Military section to those profiles
• Repair the template, if needed, for the 1776 project
• Add our spectacular new DAR ancestor sticker to the profile 

This has been approved at the national level, and the Team is excited as well to see what we can do. You can start your post with an answer below, then add the profiles you work on under your answer. 

Is there a prize? We will all be "winners" of this competition, and the prize is that we once again get to rise and shine in 2020. Additionally, I would love to see all daughters add the amazing new Society Member sticker to your own profile (thank you Steve Harris!!!). I am proudly wearing it on mine now. Let's see how much we can get done!

Editing to add the link to the Ancestor Search page, in case you don't have your patriot's number memorized 

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I added the sticker to my sister but her name doesn't show in the sticker, as your does.

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Making use of this!!!  Here is my example.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cochran-4517

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That looks great Ed!

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Ed's Cochran-4517 patriot profile really is well done. Thank you, Mindy, for spearheading the DAR sticker and recognition effort. In DAR friendship, Marion

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Just to be certain, they specifically approved the use of their logo? Everything I’ve known about DAR while I was a member is that the logo is protected outside of official functions.

Just recently I’ve had several stickers added to profiles I manage and was shocked to see the logo in use given everything I know of DAR. The only discussions on G2G are about the use of ancestor/national numbers but the logo is something else entirely.

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Pattie, thank you for being careful about using DAR-originated logos, including the one in current use on the sticker. It seems to me that Mindy has permission from the DAR to use the logo, but who in the DAR would have the authority to give permission? Short of the President General, I don't know the answer to that. Maybe Mindy can enlighten us on the official position of the Daughter who gave WikiTree permission. The DAR most likely has a specific procedure to follow to get permissions like this – a committee or a designated officer – given how well organized the DAR is. In DAR friendship, Marion.

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Here you go. Straight from the president. 

https://blog.dar.org/dar-introduces-refreshed-logo-and-accompanying-style-guide

It does help promote the use and publicity of DAR. 

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Pattie, I worked with high-level DAR employees to make sure that we were representing them fitting within their guidelines. I am so thrilled that they allow this now. I'm a proud daughter myself.

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Thank you Mindy! I am glad they have given permission for the logo!

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Thank you, Ed, for the DAR logo URL.

Answer 1

Thank you Mindy, and thank you Steve Harris.

I added it to my profile and two grand aunts, and a cousin once removed. We will have a DAR meeting on Zoom today, so it will give me a chance to tell others about WikiTree and the sticker.

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Thank you Susan for your vote. I admire so many things about you. You are amazing, even though you don’t live in the United States; you are interested in things like the Daughters of the American Revolutionary War.

Answer 2

Wonderful, Mindy! Well done in getting DAR approval.

Answer 3

Thanks for all your hard work on this issue!

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Thanks Robin! It's been a long time in the making!

Answer 4

This is great news! 

We need to change all the existing DAR template over to the new sticker, also.

Profiles currently using the existing / old template DAR-grs

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This sticker will not replace all of the source citations that point to DAR-grs. A sticker is not a source citation.

I am acutely aware of this after having run across some profiles earlier today that were sourced only to Source S137, which I eventually determined (from a family member profile) was a DAR database entry. After replacing the source citations with the DAR-grs template, and adding the sticker to the profile for the patriot ancestor Winne-99. These people still need some decent sources, but when they only have the DAR database as a source, the sticker alone does not do the job!

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I have verified that the Ancestor number in the sticker does give the same link that we got from the DAR-grs template, but I also realized that we lost the source which we probably need in profiles.

Answer 5

Congrats, Mindy, that is a wonderful thing for our tree! Thanks for your work and dedication, and thanks to Steve, too.

Answer 6

Thank you so much Mindy.  This is wonderful!

I have added the stickers to my profile and to my patriot's profile, George Holt, Holt-1977.  I see that his profile needs a lot of TLC!

Answer 7

Thank you so much, MIndy!! This is wonderful news - thanks for your hard work to get this approved.

Answer 8

Thank you Mindy!  I have added the sticker to my profile and will be adding it to my mothers asap.  Love this!!  Not sure if you are the person that initiated this, but THANK YOU!

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I am the one that got the approval, Tammie. I've been working my way up the ladder and was beyond excited to get the final approval!!

Answer 9

I'm putting my ancestors here  starting with:

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1. Uzziah Greene (Greene-1833)
2. Nahum Greene (Greene-1834)
3. Jacob Clifford (Clifford-1118)
4. William Tandy Sr. (Tandy-18)
5. Elijah Seeger (Seger-207)
6. Duncan Lindsay (Lindsay-5485) needs bio work
7. John Leonhard Eisenhauer (Eisenhauer-487) needs bio finished

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Other Patriotic Ancestors (not mine):

1. Reuben Alexander (Alexander-12009)
2. David Allard (Allard-292)
3. William Tiller (Tiller-632) needs bio & sources

Answer 10

Thanks, I just added the DAR sticker to my profile, became a member of NSDAR February 2020.

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From one daughter to another - congratulations and welcome!

Answer 11

I seemed to have missed this post when it came out in November. Great job, Mindy! Glad to see the changes, Mindy and Steve!

I'm not a member of DAR (obviously), however, I have had a side project for a number of years to see how many patriot ancestors my kids have, on both sides. My ex-wife's grandmother was also a member of DAR.

I now have 33 ancestor profiles to go update. ;-)

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Thank you, Eric! Wow, thirty-three. That is wonderful. It will be good to see the DAR sticker on those.

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Ok, it turned out to be more than 33. Here's the list of patriot profiles that I have an interest in, updated with the new sticker:

1. Abel Sutliff Jr.
2. John Ruckman Jr
3. Thomas Blackburn
4. Abraham Potter
5. William McBrayer
6. Solomon Stratton
7. John Shaffer
8. Johannes Frantz (Francis) Summitt
9. Francis M Moser
10. Peter (Binggeli) Binkele
11. Hans Jacob Hoffman Jr.
12. Andrew Hoerner
13. George Whitacre
14. John Armitage
15. Patrick Henry Longan
16. John Casper Hounshell
17. Barker Wells
18. Amos Main
19. Phineas Crandall
20. Joseph Crandall III
21. David Rogers
22. Robert Brown
23. Sanford Noyes
24. Joseph Noyes
25. Hezekiah Babcock
26. Samuel Fitz Randolph
27. William Davis
28. Thomas William Davis
29. Richard Evans
30. Joseph Peter Scholl
31. Daniel Boone
32. Joseph Bryan Sr.
33. Josiah Hopkins
34. Joseph Hollister
35. Thomas Cresap
36. Daniel Cresap Sr
37. Daniel Cresap Jr

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Wow, thank you Eric!!

Answer 12

Just saw this! Thank you so much. I have all 8 of my ancestors labelled now:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McKemy-96

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wells-1559

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-6917

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wells-1560

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hardesty-28

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barkley-179

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hauer-88

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gohn-40

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Nice work Beth!!

Answer 13

Thank you, Mindy for this information. I have added the DAR sticker to a few profiles. Don't forget that SAR, Masonic and Odd Fellow membership stickers are also available on the Society Membership Sticker page.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Society_Member

In DAR friendship,

Marion

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Thank you for honoring those ancestors, Marion!

Answer 14

One way I have found Revolutionary War Patriots that I have been able to add the DAR Sticker is to use these Patriots:

At the same time correct the 1776 Sticker. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:1776_Project_Needs_Template:1776_Review

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Thank you Alexis! Great tip 

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Mindy, glad you liked the tip, and there sure is plenty of them.

Answer 15

Hey Mindy

I want to join the DAR

category

I can start by adding all my

Family who were patriots

In American Revolution

Hope I can help make connections for others. Thank you

Cinda Spurlock

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Let me know if you have any questions about that Cinda!

Answer 16

This is great news! It will keep me busy for a while!

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Great Kathy!

Answer 17

Thanks for this information.  Now to start adding the stickers!

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Have fun Janine! Thanks for improving those profiles.

Answer 18

How do I add this to my profile? I'm sorry I am still new to Wikitree.  

Thank you,

Shonie Hartley Wahl

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Hi Shonie, glad to see you have joined WikiTree. Please let me know if I can be of any help to you.

Under your  biography, add:

 {{Society Member|society=DAR|living=yes}}   This should give you the DAR sticker.

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Thank you Alexis,

I guess I still have not really figured out how to use Wiki because I didn't get it to work for me.

Shonie

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Shonie, I am sorry it did not work for you. Maybe I can help you connect to your DAR Ancestor, and then we can go from there. You are doing a great job of adding your family, so this will all get easier.

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That is ok; technical issues and I are not friends.  I would love help connecting me to my Patriot.  I think I'm on the right track with him, it is just making sure everyone connects to me; you know how that goes.  I also use Ancestry and have much more of my tree on it because I have been using it for years, I have just recently found Wikitree. What would you need from me?  

Thank you again,     Shonie Hartley Wahl

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Shonie, I have found that the majority of the DAR Patriots have a profile of WikiTree. What is his name? If it is a common name, it would help to have his number. I love to work on Patriot profiles. I have gotten two friends into DAR by working on WikiTree, and I plan to do two more this month.

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His name is William Walter Nichols he was b. 1765 in Anson N.C. and d. 26 May 1838 Moulton, AL

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I think I have linked myself all the way to him; however, I can't find the documents to prove his son.

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Shonie, I think you are connected now, and you have added the 1880 census on Roxie Nichols’ profile.

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I've fixed that Shonie. Welcome!!