Ditto that. But I would hope they would also ask for the candidate's PARENTS long-forms as well. If one of your parent's was not a citizen - then you are still not natural born according to Vattel.
You have to provide your parent's birth certificates along with your own to gain entrance into the D.A.R. Nobody in the D.A.R. has her hand on the nuclear button, so a potential POTUS shouldn't get a pass either. JMO.
This is why I like Arizona's wording to provide all documention proving eligibility, not just one measely little abbreviated short form computer generated printout.
Sort of off-topic here...
Something I’ve always wondered about the D.A.R. — my adoptive father’s family, as well as my adoptive mother’s mother’s family fought in the Revolutionary War, however does my status as an adoptee prevent my applying to join the organization? (Keep in mind I am not allowed to access my original birth record with the name of my biological parents on it, by law without petitioning the court — and most requests are soundly rejected depending upon stated “need”.)
I’ve always wondered if I would have been eligible for some of the scholarships and such, but having just found out about my adoption myself the same year I started applying to schools, I didn’t really want to deal with those questions at the time...
Also, do you know how this would affect my daughters’ ability to apply to join? Is it all “by blood” or do legal adoptions count as well? (My daughters are all my husband and I’s biological children).
Just went to the DAR site and found the following:
“Any woman is eligible for membership who is no less than eighteen years of age and can prove lineal, blood line descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. She must provide documentation for each statement of birth, marriage, and death.”
I’m guess thing whole “blood line descent” makes us adoptees ineligible??? I guess I now know the reason the family historian refuses to name me correctly in our family tree (which is on file with the DAR) despite my insistence that she has my middle and first names backwards. Is this common practice? I do find it ironic that my sister — who found her birth mother, and found out her birth father was a Mexican citizen is listed correctly in the tree though. Very strange, IMHO.