The National Chair needs to approve all requests for the pin and bars.
Once a Volunteer earns the pin, they can earn a bar for every additional 500 hours of service. To determine qualifications, the National Chair reviews how many documents the Volunteer has indexed. When the Volunteer has indexed the required number of documents (which can be from one of the projects or several of the projects), they qualify to order the bar. The qualifications also state how many indexed documents must equal 500 hours.
For instance, The bar engraved with "500 Hours" or if a Volunteer had 1000 hours, the Volunteer would have it engraved with "1000 hours" etc.
The engraving is always in 500 hour increments.
For the DAR Genealogy Preservation Pin:
Earn the DAR Genealogy Preservation pin while helping to preserve the vital information DAR has compiled for over 125 years.
The DAR Genealogy Preservation volunteer can purchase the DAR Genealogy Preservation pin after completing one of the following:
- 100 equivalent hours of online data entry by indexing 12000 documents (120/hour) for the Supporting Documentation Project, or
- 1500 cards for the Historic Marker Project (15/hour), or
- 100 equivalent hours for other committee projects or a combination thereof.
For the Descendants Project, each volunteer is responsible for keeping track of her hours.
For the Supporting Documents Project, the program keeps track of the number of documents a volunteer has categorized and shows when the volunteer logs into the project.
National Chair Approval is required to purchase this pin and more details about qualifying for it are found on the DAR Genealogy Preservation Committee webpage.
This pin may only be worn by DAR members on the official Insignia ribbon according to the most current "Placement of DAR Insignia and Pins on Official Ribbon" document found on the Insignia Committee webpage.
This gold-filled pin measures 7/8" x 1".
The DAR Genealogy Preservation Standard Bar can be added to the DAR Genealogy Preservation pin for each additional 60000 documents indexed in the Supporting Documentation Project or completion of at least 500 additional hours for other projects, or a combination thereof. Approval from the National Chair is required.
The Genealogy Preservation Certifier Bar can be added to the DAR Genealogy Preservation pin is the member has volunteered for a minimum of 250 hours. Approval from the National Chair is required.
