Goshen Mills Chapter, NSDAR, Gaithersburg, MD

04/13/2021

The World War One Centennial Commission will hold the First Colors Ceremony this Friday April 16 at 10:00AM EST for a free live broadcast event, where they will raise the American flag over the new National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC. DAR is a proud official sponsor of the construction of the National World War I Memorial, with a $100,000 donation. The ceremony will also feature DAR President General Denise Doring VanBuren. Register to watch the ceremony here: www.ww1cc.org/firstcolors

03/26/2021

08/01/2020

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Exciting news! DAR has begun to accept autosomal DNA (atDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in addition to Y-DNA as evidence of lineage submitted with DAR membership Applications within the first three generations! DAR staff genealogists will now consider Y-DNA, autosomal DNA and mtDNA evidence along...

07/02/2020

Enjoy FREE ACCESS* to Revolutionary War Records now through July 15th. Do you have ancestors that fought for our independence? Search this collection and find out! http://fnote.it/6xaw

*Free access ends July 15, 2020 at 11:59 MDT. Registration required. Terms apply.

06/29/2020

Members of color celebrate annual conference and their ancestors' contribution to the founding of the .

06/19/2020

We are excited that next week will begin our first-ever VIRTUAL DAR Continental Congress! This will be the first time since our organization's founding in 1890 that DAR members will carry out the business and celebrations of the annual national conference in an entirely online format throughout the week of June 22-28. While our members can't come together in person, they are enthusiastically embracing technology to gather virtually in order to celebrate the success of the organization and demonstrate that the pandemic will not keep us from fulfilling our important mission.

Highlights of some of the 129th Continental Congress award honorees and speakers (who have shared video remarks for the virtual conference online programming) include:

- Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch, who will receive the DAR History Award Medal and provide the Opening Night Ceremony keynote address
- Pulitzer Prize winning author Rick Atkinson who will receive the DAR Excellence in American History Book Award for his book "The British Are Coming"
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who will be accepting the DAR Media and Entertainment Award on behalf of his PBS program "Finding Your Roots"
- LTG Robert Ashley, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who will receive the DAR Patriot Award and provide the National Defense Night Ceremony keynote address
- Dr. Melissa Givens, who will receive the Margaret Cochran Corbin Award for her exemplary military career and recent leadership in mobilizing a temporary field hospital to treat COVID-19 patients

We encourage all DAR members (as well as friends and family!) to log on to the Continental Congress section of the DAR Members' Website (via www.dar.org) next week to check out all of the great online programming for the Virtual 129th Continental Congress.

04/28/2020

Maryland State Chapter celebrated George Washington's and Lafayette's friendship at the Washington Memoral Chapel in Pa in October. A skit was performed by our DAR daughters who represented Lafayette's wife, Washington's wife and the wife of another friend who knew both men.

04/27/2020

Chapter meetings generally are held monthly, on a Saturday, from September through June. We welcome prospective members. Please contact us if you are interested in attending one of our meetings. Due to the current pandemic, we have suspended our group meetings. We are having virtual meetings, instead.

04/27/2020

The Goshen Mills Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), welcomes you to learn more about our chapter. We meet in Montgomery County, Maryland. Our members comprise a dynamic group of women of varied ages and diverse interests.

The NSDAR is a women’s service organization dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education, patriotism, and honoring the patriots of the Revolutionary War. Members are all direct descendants of a man or woman who provided military or civilian patriotic service during the American Revolutionary War.

Chapter meetings generally are held monthly, on a Saturday, from September through June, with a break in March, to allow members to attend the Maryland Society’s State Conference. We welcome prospective members. Please contact us if you are interested in attending one of our meetings.

The DAR is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America’s future through better education for children.