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The DAR Library offers three services that handle requests via fax and postal-mail. All of the services require a letter or form of request with payment by check, money order or debit/credit card. If you have a question before mailing your written request and payment, the services can be contacted through:
Email: |
searchservice@dar.org |
Telephone: |
Search Service (202) 879-3245 |
Videophone Relay: |
Search Service 1-866-387-8622;
ask for Dennis. |
The Search Service does NOT accept requests via Email
or over the Phone.
The Search Service conducts hourly-based research of the various sources within the DAR Library.
- Lineage Gaps in NSDAR, NSSAR, NSCAR applications
- Family Bible Requests
- Mayflower Descendants
- Huguenot Society
Fee for NSDAR members is $30.00/hour. |
Fee for nonmembers is $40.00/hour. |
The minimum request is one hour. The hourly fee covers 10 photocopies of material. (For more than 10 copies, we will bill you $0.30/page plus $2.00 shipping.) Please make check or money order payable to the Treasurer General, NSDAR.
Debit/credit card payments should be filled out in full on the proper form.
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The Photocopy Service handles written requests for specific copies from cited works available in the DAR Library. These would include citations and specific page numbers from:
- Revolutionary War Ancestor Documentation files: This includes locating the documentation file (also known as “supporting documentation” or “proofs”) that was used as proof for an application. Please note: Requests are limited to two (2) DAR ancestors’ names per hour request. Not every member submitted data. The DAR does not have a file for every Revolutionary War ancestor. We do not copy vital records issued by a government agency over the last 75 years.
- Genealogical Records Committee National Index
- DAR Library Catalog (Microfilm/Fiche and manuscript collections listed also)
- Revolutionary War Pension Records/Bounty Land Records
- Specific items from books/Microfilm/fiche being cited on Member Application Papers
- U.S. Federal Census Records
Fee for NSDAR members is $10.00 per request |
Fee for nonmembers is $15.00 per request |
The fee covers 10 photocopies, including title page of cited work. (For more than 10 copies, we will bill you $0.30/page for regular photocopies, $0.50 each for microfilm copies plus $2.00 shipping.) Please make check or money order payable to Treasurer General, NSDAR.
Debit/credit card payments should be filled out in full on the proper form. |
All fees are for the service of searching and are non-refundable. The DAR Library cannot guarantee to find the requested material. |
