Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestor's Index) in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Volumes I & I

Since the founding of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) in 1890 the National Society has published Lineage Books containing abstracts of the pedigrees of their members. By the year 1940 some 160 volumes of Lineage Books each containing one thousand lineages had been published. Nevertheless it was necessary to consult as many as 160 separate indexes in order to extract complete data on a Revolutionary ancestor and his descendants. Recognizing the need for a more convenient key to the lineages therefore the DAR between 1916 and 1940 condensed the names of 50000 Revolutionary ancestors appearing in the various Rolls of Honor and the volume and page references concerning their 160000 Daughters into a comprehensive four-volume index. With over 200000 references this Index (now reprinted in two large volumes) contains the greatest potential yield of Revolutionary ancestral information available in book form.