Daughters of The American Revolution.

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The family member who is researching the other side of my family has come across this quite a bit. He (the researcher) is constantly arguing with people who are attempting to make it seem that our ancestors were in The American Revolutionary War. I don't recall the website but the ancestral trees can be publicly viewed. My family member is constantly messaging with others and arguing because some people doing research are trying to manipulate the truths of our ancestor's lives. That's where Daughter's Of The American Revolution comes in. It is an organization, and I believe they also provide a scholarship. Whatever the reason, several other people are manipulating birth and death dates and somehow falsify information so that they can join the organization. I don't know the particulars on how they are doing this, and why they are either. I would think that the DAR organization would have fact checkers who would be able to tell falsified information from the real stuff but oh well. I just find it funny that my relative is bothering to argue with these people at all. Yes, I obviously realize that they are publishing falsified information for the entirety of future researchers to see, but then future researchers would most assuredly do their own digging anyway. --- It makes me think of someone else's research i've read from my father's side. A lady tried to claim that my 4th times great grandfather ran down the road to his dying son who was returning from war. What they failed to realize is that it's clear to see that's improbable. He had married several years after his "death" and had children as well (my direct ancestors). What an accomplishment for a dead man!