Help Modernize SAR’s Technology and Preserve Its Historic Records
Your gift helps the Sons of the American Revolution modernize essential information-technology systems while preserving historically significant genealogical records maintained at National Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.
Established by the President General, the $3 million IT Modernization Project will support digitization of records, payment software, national dues billing, paperless applications, database upgrades, and related technology improvements that strengthen service to members, chapters, state societies, and researchers.
Modernize the systems that serve SAR members and researchers
SAR’s information technology supports membership administration, genealogy services, financial operations, records management, and the ability of members and researchers to access important information. Modernization will help make these services more efficient, reliable, and prepared for future needs.
- Improve tools and processes used by members, chapters, and state societies.
- Strengthen access to genealogical records and research services.
- Reduce manual, paper-based work and avoidable administrative delays.
Preserve a growing collection and improve future retrieval
Digitization of records is a key priority within the IT Modernization Project. Supporting documents are submitted with every application received by the Society and serve as evidence used to establish lineage to Patriots of the American Revolution.
Over many decades, the collection has grown to an estimated more than three and a half million pages, and the Society’s physical archival storage vault has reached capacity. Copies of supporting documents can be purchased from the Society; however, locating, reproducing, and delivering paper records is a time-consuming and inefficient process.
Digitization will help preserve these historically significant materials and prepare SAR to make records easier to retrieve and provide to members and researchers.
Build the systems needed for SAR’s future
The IT Modernization Project advances a coordinated set of technology improvements to strengthen operations, service, and long-term organizational capacity.
Digitization of records
Preserve and improve retrieval of historically significant genealogical supporting documents.
Payment capabilities
Support point-of-sale, store, online-payment, and related transaction needs.
National dues billing
Improve the collection of national, state, and chapter dues through a modern system.
Paperless applications
Reduce mailing costs, help address missing signatures and incorrect payments, and support faster genealogy processing.
Database upgrades
Modernize the Blue Database and related records-management systems.
Financial integration
Improve the flow of financial transactions into the accounting system and support future revenue streams.
Support the IT Modernization Project through SAR.org
The SAR.org Donate button takes visitors to a general giving page. Please follow these steps to contribute to the IT Modernization Project.
Begin through the standard SAR donation process.
Choose the correct fund from the drop-down menu.
Your support advances the Society’s IT Modernization Project.
More efficient operations and better service across the Society
SAR’s modernization needs extend beyond any single system. A coordinated technology strategy can improve how the Society manages applications, dues, payments, records, and other essential services.
- Decrease mailing expenses for chapters and state societies through paperless processes.
- Help reduce pended applications caused by missing signatures and incorrect payments.
- Help decrease genealogy processing time through better records access and connected systems.
- Support secure, efficient financial processing across national, state, and chapter operations.
- Strengthen the technical foundation needed to serve current and future members.
Members, chapters, researchers, and preservation supporters
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution encourages members, state societies, chapters, genealogists, historians, and supporters of historic preservation to contribute to this important undertaking. IT modernization will strengthen daily Society operations while helping safeguard and expand access to records that matter to family historians and researchers.
An enduring mission since 1889
Founded in 1889, the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to honoring our Revolutionary War patriot ancestors by promoting patriotism, serving our communities, and educating and inspiring future generations about the founding principles of our country.
The SAR headquarters and Genealogical Research Library are located in Louisville, Kentucky.