Genealogical Records Committee
Shelley Wells, Chairman
The main purpose of
the Genealogical Records Committee is to
collect a variety of previously
non-published genealogical records for
submission to the DAR Library in Washington,
DC. Acceptable records include records of
deeds; marriages; probates; court orders and
minute books; town council minutes; parish
registers of vital records; vestry minutes
or session books; bible records; church
records; funeral home records; school
censuses; tombstone inscriptions and
cemetery records, diaries, papers and
letters found in manuscript collections.
These materials need not be connected with a
DAR patriot or member. Please send these
materials directly to this chairman and NOT
to the NSDAR Library.
 This year the
Genealogical Records Committee will be
adding the New Children of Patriots
Challenge. Everyone of us has a patriot but
are there other children that are not listed
in the DAR database? Did your patriot have a
will/probate that names the children? Or is
there another record that names the
children?
Please fill out the New
Children of Patriot Worksheet and submit
your evidence to your chapter Genealogical
Records Chairman or you can send the
information to me.
Please keep track of your
entries as there is a new pin after only 100
entries. But you will need to keep track of
your entries using the Genealogical Records
Committee authorization form GRC-WP-4000.
Please visit the National site or the
Genealogical Records Committee Iowa State
page.
The GRC Committee is also
looking for volunteers to help with the Bible
Catalog Project. This project is designed to
create a catalog of each unique Bible record
found within the Genealogical Records
Committee collection. The project is done on
the computer from the comfort of your home. It
requires the volunteer to review a book and
determine if there are any Bible records that
need to be cataloged. Each Bible Catalog entry
is applied to Book
Worm Pin credit.
As your new State Chairman for the
Genealogical Records Committee, I am excited
to serve and would like to propose a friendly
competition that every chapter in Iowa submit
10 pages of historical records. To find out
more information please see the NSDAR website
under the Genealogical Records Committee.
Ten Page
Chapter Challenge
The instructions for copying source records
and how to prepare them for Library is Form
LG-GRC-2000.
There will be a prize for the person or
chapter who submits the most records every
quarter with the "Grand Prize" to be
presented at the 2021 ISDAR State Conference.
More information to follow.
Please submit your records to me or if you
have any questions please feel free to contact
me.
Shelley
Wells
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