An Index to Some of the Family Records of the Southern State: 35,000 Microfilm References from the N.S.D.A.R. Files and Elsewhere was compiled by E. Kay Kirham. Kirham best describe the contents of this index in her introduction:
“The genealogical library in Washington, D.C. of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is one of the a few great genealogical libraries of this country. A part, but not all, of the records of this organization were microfilmed a few years ago. The index that follows is a partial index to one part of that library”
While this index itself was put together a number of years ago, the content remain relative and useful. The greater part of this index covers the southern states; however, a few hundred references are from other states. Apart from using this index at the DAR library in Washington, D.C., where original materials are available, items will be found on microfilms. This means using a library with access to the films, like the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, or “if possible, through the branch library system of the Mormon Church.”
The index is a compilation of family Bibles, family records, family histories, and cemetery records. Family records, denoted by FR in the index, a of at least several pages. FH, family history, records are of at least 15 pages in length. All state are denoted in the index by there standard two letter abbreviation. The index also covers the Leonardo Andrea collection of South Carolina genealogies of some twelve hundred typescripts of extensive genealogies, and are given their own code SCA. The films covered also include over 3,000 California pioneer genealogies, denoted with an asterisk (*).
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