The DAR is only one of many lineage-based societies. Apply for the society or start your own that fits your past.
Think back to the days before genealogy became an interest of yours, to a time when ancestors occupied occasional family stories, were visited on Memorial Day cemetery trips, or brushed through your subconscious if Ellis Island or a Civil War battle was mentioned.
Reviews of some of the most recently published genealogy books.
French-Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists
by Patricia Keeney Geyh, Joyce Soltis Banachowski, Linda K. Boyea, Patricia Sarasin Ustine, Marilyn Holt Bourbonais, Beverly Ploenske LaBelle, Francele Sherburne, Karen Vincent Humiston. Ancestry Publishing, 2002. 340 pages. Hardcover. $39.95. Order at <www.ancestry.com>.
I learned the bare outlines of the tragedy from a distant cousin. My great-uncle Solomon Laskin was fatally injured as a child while lighting firecrackers with his brothers on the Fourth of July. Cemetery records provided the date of death, and the death certificate confirmed that the nature of the injuries was consistent with the family story.