Sons of the American Revolution members?

[Tactically Fat]

Anyone here a member? By chance, anyone in the Indy Chapter?

Kind of going through the beginning gyrations as I'm eligible. But being asked for a copy of my wife's birth cert and my mother's (not the line I descend from) is...odd.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yes?

 

[joncon]

One of my Mothers relatives (Arthur Middleton) signed the Declaration of Independence.
She belonged to The Daughters of the Revolution, but I've never tried to join the Sons of Revolution.

 

[model1994]

odd, yeah.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Anyone here a member? By chance, anyone in the Indy Chapter?

Kind of going through the beginning gyrations as I'm eligible. But being asked for a copy of my wife's birth cert and my mother's (not the line I descend from) is...odd.

How do you not descend from your mother's line? IVF baby?

 

[rhamersley]

How do you not descend from your mother's line? IVF baby?

I think he means his mother's side doesn't have the Revolutionary War vet in it, it's his dad's side.

 

[OneBadV8]

How do you not descend from your mother's line? IVF baby?

have you met him?

 

[rhamersley]

have you met him?
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[Tactically Fat]

I think he means his mother's side doesn't have the Revolutionary War vet in it, it's his dad's side.

yes. Direct patrilineal descendent of two fellers, actually. A father and son were apparently both Rev. War soldiers. Easier to prove the lineage to the son Adam vs. his father. Documentation is sketchy already, but documentation to get to Adam's father is basically non-existent. So...son it is.

Been burning up the Ancestry.com Familysearch.org stuff trying to find documentation.

Anyhow - on to why they'd need birth certs for my mother and my wife (I did mention that maybe I'd do a jr. membership for my son) - but they've not asked for anything else.

I'm quite hesitant to provide those documents because both my mother and my wife are still alive and copies of birth certs are important.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Great Site! I found my 4th Great Grandfather in Germany! Free!

https://www.familysearch.org/en/family-tree/?cid=PC-00038601&keyword=family%20tree%20latter%20day%20saints&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxsm3BhDrARIsAMtVz6N1lMQH1hrZFhfR9tx2KmjOl-1tveYTvuEPFEXEccAZp1oZ0YLim5kaAnAlEALw_wcB

 

[Brad69]

Very cool post.

I have 11 great-grandfathers that fought in the Revolution. Two sets were father and son.

Get this crap!

Patrick Henry was my 6th great uncle!
Father Thomas Nelson jr. was my 7th great uncle!
Brigadier General Joseph Martin was my 5th great uncle!

Oh and my grandmother Mary Osgood was arrested during the Salem witch trials.

 

[Wolfhound]

One of my relatives died by a British bayonet at the Battle of Camden. Another was a Hessian soldier who decided to stay here after the war.

My wife is related to Lizzie Borden. Yikes

I had two relatives at Valley Forge.