https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:DAR-grs is a DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution, i.e. the member is female) template for the citation with elements of ancestor number|ancestor name|access date. this will place a line in the profile, and create a hotlink using the ancestor number to link to the record for that patriot in the DAR databases
the [[Category: NSDAR Patriot Ancestors]] is manually added to the patriot ancestor using DAR applications/proof (in the future it might be modified to be added by the DAR-grs template when that is used)
{{NSSAR Patriot Ancestor}} is an SAR (Sons of the American Revolution i.e. the member is male) template using SAR applications/proof which is placed on the patriot, and the template will add them to [[Category: NSSAR Patriot Ancestor]]
the patriot ancestor can be either male or female. an application is for a single person. if that person's spouse is listed, it is the genealogy fact that they are the parent of the next person in the chain, not that they are also a patriot, if they were a patriot in their own right for SAR/DAR purposes, a second application would be used listing them as the patriot.
there is a category for the members of the SAR [[Category:Sons of the American Revolution]] this is for the person who submitted the application and was accepted as an SAR member, not for everyone listed on the application of the member back to the patriot ancestor.
a similar [[Category: Daughters of the American Revolution]] is for the actual DAR member
the {{1776}} template does not require any SAR/DAR proofs, and can be added to any profile for people of any country that were involved in the American Revolution scope