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The SAR is a “lineage” society. This means that each member has traced their family tree back to a point of having an ancestor who supported the cause of American Independence during the years 1774-1783.
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Determine Eligibility
To initiate the SAR membership process, you should begin by ensuring that you can satisfy the SAR membership requirements and that you are a direct descendant of a Revolutionary War Patriot.
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Reach Out To Us
We will help guide you through the SAR membership application process and can help review information assembled to enter into SAR membership application forms.
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Collect Your Data
Properly documenting a genealogical line to a patriot ancestor can often be accomplished with only modest effort, provided you know what to look for and where to find it.
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Start Your Application
We will be able to discuss membership options and related costs with you.We will then forward your application to the respective SAR State Society and then on to National SAR Headquarters for final review and approval.
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Why become a member?
As in any organization, you get out as much as or more than you put into it. We are an organization of people who make good things happen. You can help make the dream of our patriot ancestors a reality by joining and participating in our programs to sustain the system of representative government and participatory democracy that they fought with words and weapons to create.
What kind of participation will be available?
Come to meetings, pay dues on time, read the newsletters. Participate in the Color Guard. Recommend good people for awards, help present the awards. Encourage youth to enter contests, sponsor their awards. Help with an activity, join a committee, become an officer. Get information on patriot graves, mark a grave site. Learn about local historical markers, tell your friends. Volunteer to talk at a local school or civic association. Join or start or support a color guard with Revolutionary War uniforms. Support local historical research, get it published or on the Web. Fly the flag of our nation correctly and often at your home.
What are the qualifications to join?
The SAR does not restrict membership on basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin, nation of citizenship or residency. To establish eligibility you must be able to confirm that you are a direct ancestral line descendant of a Patriot by providing appropriate SAR acceptable documentation. We can help you with finding the right qualifications. If you want more information you can find it HERE!
What costs & benefits are there?
Application Fees (National + Nebrasaka): National $150, State $10; Total: $160, one time fee when you submit your application.
Benefits of Joining (typical): review, registration, and archival storage of lineage and documentation; membership certificate; membership insignia (rosette); booklet with constitution, bylaws, officers, membership list
Annual Dues (National + Nebraska): National $50, State $17, Chapter $10; Total: (typical) $77
Annual Benefits (typical): four issues of The SAR Magazine; opportunities to participate in the District Meeting, Trustee meetings, and the Annual Congress; several newsletters, opportunities to participate in several state events; opportunities to participate in several chapter activities
