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Practising and Applying the Standards 45
circumstances as the above refugees, and settled in either
of the Six Nations Resen~es on the Grand River or Bay
of Quinte.
The UEL Association has Affiliate memberships for those
eligible descendants who are unable to swear the oath of
allegiance to the Crown, and/or who are citizens of an alien
country. There are Associate memberships for otherwise
interested parties who wish to receive the semi-annual
journal The Lyalii-t Gayette. blany UEL Branches are active
across Canada. The membership application is made to a
Branch on a standard form; you may wish to choose a
Branch near your own place of residence, or in the area
where your Loyalist ancestor lived. Each Branch has a
genealogist who can assist you in completing the application,
and give additional research advice about sources and
procedures, if necessary. Applications with the required
documentation are then forwarded to the Dominion level
for review, and the successful applicant receives a Certificate
of Membership from the Association.
The submission of evidence, for direct-line connection
with a Loyalist ancestor, follows the same methods of
genealogical research we all use, back through each
generation. W7hen you reach the man or woman who
apparently was in this province in the eighteenth century,
your next job is to search out all evidence that that particular
person received a Loyalist privilege, or was considered a
Loyalist by the contemporary authorities. The UEL
application form will be your guideline for "acceptable
sources."