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Welcome to our Dare Family web site!

(see our Dare Family DNA results below!)

Dare Family Researchers have compiled a database of over 127,000 names over the last 90 years! If you think you are related to us, you have a lot of documented cousins!! :) Hi cuz!

Come meet your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th cousins at our 90th Annual Dare Family Association Reunion!

Saturday September 21^st 2013
^{held this year at:

Union Presbyterian Church - Featherer Hall,

254 Shell Road, Carney's Point, NJ 08069

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM}
Another great opportunity for Food, Fun, Fellowship, and the sharing of photos and information with your Dare kin!

We visit for a bit, browse Dare Family historic displays, then share a delicious home style meal, followed by a discussion time,
elections, and other DFA reports and business.
^{Click here for the 2013 reservation form

to
mail to Virginia Dare Schneeman:}

Important to know: Over 90% of the Dares in America

are not descended from a Dyer Family Line, as some thought!

Click here for more details:

2010 DFA Reunion Notes (click here):

2009 DFA Reunion Notes (click here):

2008 DFA Reunion Notes (click here):

We now have the final round of DNA tests back and our 37 marker Dare DNA is as follows:

btw: If you have male Dare DNA results and you match, please let us know? Thanks!

We used FamilyTreeDNA.com:

Y-DNA of Male Descendants of William Dare b 1605:

Haplogroup: r1b1b2

Locus -1 --- 2 -- 3 -- 4 ---- 5 ----- 6 ----- 7 --- 8 --- 9 --- 10 ---- 11 --- 12
DYS# 393 390 19* 391 385a 385b 426 388 439 389-1 392 389-2
Alleles - 13 -- 24 -- 14 -- 11 -- 11 -- 14 -- 12 -- 12 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 --- 28 ---

Locus --13 -- 14 ---15 --- 16 --17 --18 --19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 --- 24 ---25
DYS# 458 459a 459b 455 454 447 437 448 449 464a 464b 464c 464d
Alleles - 18 --- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 11 -- 25 -- 15 -- 19 -- 32 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 --- 17 -

Locus -26 ---- 27 ------ 28 ----- 29 --- 30 -- 31 - 32 - 33 --- 34 --- 35 --- 36 -- 37
DYS# 460 gataH4 ycaIIa ycaIIb 456 607 576 570 cdYa cdYb 442 438
Alleles - 11 ------ 11 ----- 19 ----- 23 --- 16 - 15 - 17 - 17 -- 37 ---- 38 -- 11 -- 12 ---

btw - The Dare DNA test also indicates that our male Dare line is 100 % from England.

If you are a Dare Family Researcher, please join the World Dare Research group at: http://www.genealogywise.com/group/Dare_Family

Also you can join our Dare Family Researchers Group on Facebook!

Any Dare descendants can join the Dare Family group on Facebook to share life with other Dares from around the world!

Current Association Officers:

William H. Dare - - -                President      Bill@DareFamily.com

Bob Davis       - - - -                 Vice President

Sara Bates      - - -                    Recording Sec.

Virginia Dare Schneeman -    Treasurer

Dave Bates    - - - -                  Association Historian and Webmaster Dave@DareFamily.com

Membership entitles you to participate in the business meeting of the Association and supports further research into our family history!
Membership also entitles you to the members-only sections of our web site, if you are a descendant of Captain William Dare of Lyme Regis, England or the Calvert County, MD Dare line.

Please send your $5.00 membership fee (per year) to our treasurer:
         Mrs. Virginia Dare Schneeman
         The Dare Family Association
         42 Burgess Road
         Monroeville, NJ 08343-1825

If you send your e-mail address with your membership, Dave Bates will send you a kinship report, listing all your Dare relatives, plus how they are related to you! It is a lot of fun to have!   You never know, your next door neighbor could be your 6th cousin! My best friend was!

Our Dare family database currently contains over 40,000 descendants of William Dare of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England and another 50,000+ 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: dave@darefamily.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!)

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