Can anyone advise the offical DAR position of using "Record Copies" as proof for a specific lineage. I'm asking this on the context of the following three web citations below. I'm finding opinion but no conclusive citation from the DAR.

1. Any DAR application submitted before 1976 should be treated as inconclusive. Any DAR application accepted before 1976 is no longer acceptable "proof" on a new application and should not be cited as "proof" in any other context.

Any DAR application submitted after 1990 may be regarded in the same light as the Rock of Gibraltar. Each fact stated has been backed up with primary evidence, including the marriage of the applicant.

The many-volumed Lineage Books have not been con-sidered reliable sources for over 15 years and DAR does not accept them as sufficient citation/proof on any line.

The exceptions to the above mainly consist of a genea-logical anomaly . . . the information contained on pre-1976 applications was proven by the standards in force when the application was submitted. The fact that those standards are no longer acceptable is, in some limited contexts, irrelevant. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bbunce77/D...


2. Please note that, generally, full documentation will be found only for those applications submitted since the early 1980s. Applications submitted during the early 1900s will not have accompanying documentation and, therefore, you will have to use a Long Form and submit proof documents. http://www.californiadar.org/chapters/mojave/research_and_ge...

3. Keep in mind that early standards of genealogy were far looser than they are today. Even as late as 1958, applicants did not have to submit proof of their parents' and grandparents' vital statistics.
....... It wasn't until 1984 that everything the applicant sent was kept. http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?id=253&am...

Thanks in advance,

Vince