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The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890, and the National Society published Lineage Books with abstracts of the pedigrees of members. These show the descent from one or more ancestors who contributed to the Revolutionary cause. By 1940 some 160 volumes had appeared, each containing about 1,000 lineages and an index to the Revolutionary ancestors, called the "Roll of Honor," and an index of the "Daughters" whose pedigrees were in the volume.

Recognizing the need for a convenient key to the lineages, the DAR between 1916 and 1940, condensed the names of 50,000 Revolutionary ancestors in the "Rolls of Honor" and the volume and page references concerning their 160,000 "Daughters" into a comprehensive four-volume index. For convenience and lower cost, we have reprinted the full four-volume text in two volumes.

This work is the quickest guide to Revolutionary ancestors and their descendants, because there are over 200,000 references, and for each it gives direct citation to the Lineage Book that has the full information.

These volumes are also available on our Family Archive CD 7506.