Ancestry.com is providing free access through July 4 to a database of applications for membership in the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution approved between 1889 and 31 December 1970. These 145,000 applications provide a direct link to ancestors who served in the American Revolution, going back several generations in a single document.
The Society requires documentation proving a generation-by-generation link to a patriot ancestor and may include pension files, baptismal records, marriage records, cemetery records, census records, family Bible records, deeds, court records, documented family and local histories, and copies of applications to other lineage societies. Applications can be searched by name, place and date of birth and death, and application year.
