DAR Digital Magazine Archive

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) website dar.org has a free resource of the Digital Magazine Archive spanning from 1892 – 2016. You can find it listed here among their general resources: https://services.dar.org/members/DAR_Research/resources/

I am a member of the Niagara Falls (NF) Chapter of the DAR and I know that our 100th anniversary is coming up. According to our Chapter website (http://niagaradar.lakeontariodesign.com), the Chapter was founded on 4 April 1922. So I looked at the DAR Magazines from 1922 and found mention of the founding of the NF Chapter under the Report of Organizing Secretary General in July 1922:1

The following chapters have reported organization since the last Board meeting:
…Niagara Falls, of Niagara Falls, N. Y.;…

Fun to see a record of the founding of the NF Chapter!

Sources

  1. Lucy Galt Hanger, “Report of Organizing Secretary General,” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine LVI, No. 7 (July 1922): 424; image copy, DAR (https://services.dar.org/members/magazine_archive/download/?file=DARMAG_1922_07.pdf : accessed 4 March 2021).