HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER 2. Under the banner of Great Britain in North 22. Original Land Owner, not inheritor America in any of the wars in which the (Documentation must establish that the Membership is by written invitation after an colonists participated received the land through a grant or affirmative vote of the chapter or state society 3. All military and naval service of the colonies patent, or from the Indians, that he was without chapters. Applicants must be endorsed by 4. Furnished troops or funds (Documentation of actually the first colonial owner of the two members, in good standing, of the chapter or tax assessments alone do not meet the criteria.) specified tract of land, and that he did not buy state society without chapters. The applicant must 5. Filled office of Governor, Lieutenant it or inherit it.) present her typed or computer-generated lineage Governor or Deputy Governor 23. Member of the London, Plymouth or Virginia papers to the inviting Chapter or State Registrar for 6. Member or Delegate to Council or Assembly Companies who actually came to the colonies, examination. A lineage paper approved by the 7. Member of House of Burgesses or the first immigrant descendant of any Registrar, signed by the Regent and Registrar, is 8. Deputy or Representative to the General Court member of these companies who resided in the forwarded by the Chapter or State Society to the 9. Commissioner of the United Colonies, of colonies home address of the National Registrar for Boundaries or Treaties, of import or Excise, to 24. Palatine Settler verification. A check to cover the examination fee the French or Indians 25. Covenanter from Scotland who actually came and the annual national dues must accompany the 10. Secretary, Magistrate, Selectman, Justice, to the Colonies or the first immigrant lineage paper. Judge of any Court of Law or Equity, descendant of a Covenanter from Scotland. Attorney, Advocate, Solicitor, Juryman, 26. Saltzburger of Georgia Lineage of transfers from the National Society Sheriff, Constable, or other forms of civil Children of the American Colonists must be proved service in the same manner as those of applicants for 11. Founder or Trustee of any College in North PREPARING LINEAGE PAPERS membership. America founded prior to 1775 12. Minister of the Gospel or Commissary of the NSDAC requires one copy of the lineage paper, Bishops of London typed or computer-generated on acid free paper. ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP 13. Member of the Committee of Safety of the Proof will only be returned if a self-addressed Continental Congress 1774 and 1775 stamped envelope is included with the application. Any woman who is a citizen of the United States of 14. Member of the Council of Safety of 1689 The lineage paper must bear original signatures and America, is of good moral character, and has attained 15. Signer of the Mayflower Compact must be completed within one year of receipt by the her eighteenth year, shall be eligible for membership, 16. Speaker of the House of Deputies applicant. provided that she shall be acceptable to the Society 17. Physician or surgeon and shall be the lineal descendant of an ancestor who 18. Member of Provincial Congress Each lineage paper is verified on its own merit. rendered civil or military service in any of the 19. Signer of the Declaration of Independence Additional information MAY be required on a colonies prior to July 4, 1776. Legal shall (Documentation must establish that the signer previously established ancestor. If an established not quality for lineal descent. was elected to represent the colonists prior to lineage is used, the member’s name and national July 4, 1776.) number MUST be included for reference. The applicant shall be of lineal descent from those 20. Huguenot Refugee men and women who were actual residents of 21. Signer of the Oath of Allegiance to Great Documentation of lineage verifying each succeeding America when it was under foreign government as Britain (The Oath of Allegiance was taken by generation must be included for all generations colonies and who served in any of the following the Freemen in New England, the Dutch in including the ancestor whose service is claimed for capacities prior to July 4, 1776: New Amsterdam, the Swedes in Delaware, and eligibility. Please underline in red within the proof other early settlers. Documentation must be documents pertinent information and cite the 1. In battle under colonial authority submitted that the oath was taken prior to July generational number for reference. Dates of 4, 1776.) ’ services must be stated on lineage papers and must be prior to July 4, 1776. Please note the following: THINGS TO REMEMBER

 Documentation that the applicant is a  Supplemental lineages are submitted using of her is required. the same forms as original lineage papers.  Documentation that the service is within the Only submit one lineage on a given set of parameters of the NSDAC Bylaws is papers. required.  Supplemental lineages must meet the same  Acceptable Documentation may include: standards of acceptability as original Birth, Death, and Certificates application papers. The examination fee for Bible records supplemental lineages is found in Article VI, Census records Section 1 of the National Bylaws. HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER Cemetery records  Members admitted by the National Society Eligibility Requirements Wills, deeds, court, tax, and land records after October 1 do not pay additional Newspaper articles and obituaries national dues until December 1 of the and Well-documented histories and following year. Chapters and State Societies (title page and pertinent may establish dues and fees for their Instructions pages must be included) members. for the Photographs of tombstones - information  All references to the “National Bylaws” on tombstones should be clear. The refer to the Bylaws published in the current Preparation of NSDAC Lineage Papers For name and location of the cemetery edition of the National Yearbook. The Membership should also be included. examination fee for supplemental lineages is  Send photocopies of documentation, not found in the National Bylaws. in the originals.  This document was correct at the time of National Society of the American  Unacceptable Documentation printing; in case of a conflict with the Colonists Publications by F.A. Virkus National Bylaws or other governing Publication by John S. Wurts documents, however, the governing Americans of by Charles document will be deemed correct.

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Ancestor roster or lineage paper of other The object of this Society shall be Patriotic, lineage societies Historical and Educational; to make research as to the Undocumented genealogies history and deeds of the American colonists, and to Information generated from personal record and publish the same; to commemorate deeds websites of colonial interest; to inculcate and foster love of 1850-1870 census records are not America and its institutions by all its residents; to sufficient to prove parentage obey its laws and venerate its flag – the emblem of its  Other websites may or may not be power and civic righteousness. acceptable, and will be evaluated on a one-on-one basis. Article II, NSDAC Bylaws