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United States

What is in This Collection?
Index of applications for memberships in the Sons of the American Revolution. Vols. 1-167 also individually indexed. Includes catalog of members to 1970, ancestor index to 1993, membership applications filed numerically, and documents relating to membership applications filed by name of patriot ancestor. Catalog of members lists name of member in alphabetical order by surname, state society, membership number, national membership number, name of ancestor, military rank and unit. Applications are filed in numerical order by national number and include name of member, name of ancestor, and documentation for membership. Index of ancestors list name of ancestor, birth and death dates and places if available, military service, name of descendant, descendants' state society, state and national number, and volume number of records. Contents: Membership application documentation lists name of member, national number, state unit and state number, name of ancestor, and documentation for membership. Catalog and index have retakes at beginning of film. Some numbers may be missing. A few applicants have requested that their papers not be included in this filming.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:

Person applying
 * Date of application
 * Person who is applying
 * Age
 * Place of birth
 * Ancestry back to the person who served in the war

Military member
 * Name
 * Birth date and place
 * Death date and place
 * parents
 * History
 * Details of his military service
 * Records where information found

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Winston C. Williams, editor, Centennial history of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1889-1989 Paducah, Kentucky : Turner Pub. Co., c1991. FHL 973 C4wc
 * The SAR magazine Louisville, Kentucky : National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1967- FHL 973 B2sa
 * Membership information and application forms for Sons of the American Revolution, 1776-1996
 * Sons of the American Revolution. Revolutionary War Graves Committee. War graves register forms, 16 rolls
 * Membership directory (Sons of the American Revolution)White Plains, New York : Bernard C. Harris Pub. Co., c1993- FHL 973 C45m

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * United States Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783
 * United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900
 * United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872
 * United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
 * United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
 * United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
 * Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications, 1835-1838
 * Massachusetts Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications, 1805-1845
 * Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783
 * New Hampshire Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * James C. Neagles and Lila L. Neagles, Locating your Revolutionary War ancestor : a guide to the military records Logan, Utah : Everton Publishers, c1983
 * Benson John Lossing, Field-book of the American Revolution : published under the patronage of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution ... 2 volumes. Reprint of the 1850-1852 ed. published in New York, Harper and Brothers, Cottonport, Louisiana : Polyanthos, 1972
 * A national register of the Society Sons of the American Revolution - v. 2 (1902)

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