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We held our 85th Annual Reunion Saturday September 20th 2008 in Centerton, Salem County, NJ (our next one will most likely be on Sept 19, 2009) At this meeting, we voted to begin a Dare artifact collection to display at each and every future Dare Family Reunion. If you have items you would like to donate to this collection, we welcome any Dare Family historical artifacts! We also voted to fund and begin a Dare Family DNA Project! This project will allow us to prove our link to many other Dare families searching for their origins. Since our family has the oldest proved link to the long line of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England Dares (who lived there since before 1265), this will allow other Dares searching for their roots to confirm that they are also descended from the Lyme Regis, England, Dare Families. Our 2007 Reunion program included a PowerPoint slide presentation with pictures of the lands where our ancestor, Captain William Dare, of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England and his grandfather William Dare lived. We now have a copy of the grandfather's will (dated 1667) available for emailing - listing their lands in Lyme Regis and Uplyme, England. Also included were photos of the resort town of Lyme Regis, interior pictures of the church that the Dare family attended for over 300 years, pictures of the Dare Farm in Uplyme, and pictures of some of the unusual events held there in Lyme Regis every year! This presentation will be made available to Dare Family Association members on the members-only web pages. Our historian, Dave Bates, also presented some of the slides (mentioned above) at the Indiana Reunion on Aug 5th. (Our friends in England sent him quite a few more between August and September 15th!) They had a record attendance of almost 80 people in Hamilton, IN! This was the 58th reunion for this group of Dares, based in and near Franklin County, Indiana. Some of this group are also members of our Dare Family Association. In 2007, Dr. Michael Robinson, our 7th cousin (from Benoni Dare), who is President of the Indiana Dare Reunion, joined us at the NJ Dare Reunion! He is a family researcher and a Professor of Genetics and Microbiology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He gave a brief background of his frequent electronic contacts with our Association researchers and greeted his NJ cousins for the first time in person! He is a long time member of our Association. The Indiana Association holds its annual reunion the first Sunday afternoon in August each year. Current Association Officers: William H. Dare - - - President billdare@verizon.net Bob Davis - - - - Vice President Paul Dare - - - Recording Sec. Virginia Dare Schneeman - Treasurer Mary Dare - - - - Corresponding Sec. Dave Bates - - - - Association Historian and Webmaster
Membership entitles you to
participate in the business meeting of the Association and supports further
research into our family history! If you send your e-mail
address with your membership, Dave Bates will send you a
kinship report, listing all your Dare
relatives, and how they are related to you! It's a lot
of fun to have! You never know, your next
door neighbor could be your 7th cousin! Keep checking back, we will soon be adding a number of family trees, reports, historical documents, and family lists! Coming Soon: Photo galleries of Dare descendants & reunion
attendees Gravestone pictures of Dare descendants by cemetery Past newsletters of the Dare Family Association
Our Dare family database (which you can download from this web site) currently contains over 34,000 descendants of William Dare of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England and another 40,000+ relatives, including Sheppard, Moore, Bates, DeVault, Adams, Allen, Ayars, Bacon, Bateman, Brown, Davis, DuBois, Elwell, Fithian, Friend, Hall, Harris, Hitchner, Howell, Johnson, Lippincott, Lore, Mulford, Ogden, Page, Parvin, Powell, Reeves, Sayre, Sharp, Smith, Stratton, Thompson, VanMeter, Westcott, Wood and many other long-time South Jersey families. We now have association members in 28 states plus Canada!
To contact our Family Historian or to send updates or corrections to the family tree please send your e-mails to: davebates77@hotmail.com Also, if you would like to send pictures, documents, or family trees, please email them for our archives!
(Please, if you find any problems with this web
site or if you'd like to see something and haven't found it, don't hesitate to
e-mail me! I appreciate criticisms as well as questions!) This web site deals with our family history - our past,
but
are you ready for your future?
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