(updated 05/22/2010)
The Main Database below now contains almost 77,100 names and includes large groups of these families:
Dare, Sheppard, Moore, Williams, Bates, DeVault, Adams, Allen, Ayars, Bacon, Bateman, Brown, Davis, DuBois, Elwell, Fithian, Friend, Hall, Harris, Hitchner, Johnson, Lippincott, Lore, Mulford, Ogden, Page, Parvin, Powell, Reeves, Robbins, Sayre, Sharp, Smith, Stratton, Thompson, VanMeter, Westcott, & Wood families:
Please Note: Since we are now tracking many family lines including those we have not yet connected to, the main database will now include those not necessary related to me or you.
If you want just descendants (and spouses) of Captain William Dare's (1655) grandfather William Dare b 1605, then download one of the smaller databases below.
***If you take advantage of all of our research, please do me the courtesy of contributing some data that is not yet in the database? That is all I ask, thanks! Please share? That's what families do!
And corrections (with sources) are welcome!
One more footnote - because of recent availability of old documents on line, some folks have used old disproved data as if it was a "new" source, when it actually was mistaken and has been proven to be false. Please be careful to compare books to this database, since hundreds of researchers worked on this data over the last 86 years to make sure it was correct! Books don't have the luxury of being able to be corrected. This includes Dare books published in 1939, and 1994-2000 which had errors too (imagine that? :)
Note: The file below that is zipped,
is
compressed to save storage space and to speed up downloading, due to the file's sheer
size. Save the file that ends in .zip to your hard drive. Then
double click it. If your computer has the appropriate Windows unzip program, it will ask
you where you want to store the enlarged (unzipped) file. Select a folder
where you store your family trees. Once you do that, you can open the
database using Family Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, Family Tree Legends, or some other Family Tree
Software. Important to know: notes and other data often get weirdly
relabeled when you export and import! If you have a question about some
notes, please ask! If your computer cannot unzip the zipped file, go to
Google and download a free Zip program like WinZip.
Dare, Sheppard & Bates Family
Data and many other families, exported to
the universal "GED" format:
3.8 MB
zipped (being updated)
Dare, Sheppard & Bates Family Data and many other families, exported to the universal "GED" format: 18 MB unzipped (being updated)
Dare, Sheppard & Bates Family Data and many other families, exported to the Family Tree Maker 16 compatible "GED" format: 18 MB unzipped (being updated)
Since GED format is more universal, and can be opened by a variety of family tree programs, I
will continue to export Family Tree Databases to GED format for this page.
It would be difficult
to change from Family Tree Maker with this many records, and conversions to
newer versions of Family Tree Maker have been traumatic as well.
So I
will have to continue using Family Tree Maker 2010 for now.
You will find that various Family Tree Software programs do not play well with each other, and it is getting worse each year. Exporting from FTM to GED format also does weird things with text formatting, which thrills me no end, so please don't think I put all those spaces (and other corrupt data) in the GED file on purpose! Even fact labels get changed when exporting from FTM to GED. It is something I can't do anything about.
I currently recommend the Family Tree Legends program (a free program) if you are just starting out, and Legacy Family Tree for more advanced users. Only programmer type personalities seem to be able to manage "The Master Genealogist" program. It has a HUGE and TIME CONSUMING learning curve. Their motto seems to be, lets make this program as complex and difficult as possible!
Note: As of Oct 2009, the family tree is stored in a Family Tree Maker 2010 database. If you have FTM 2006, 2008, 2009, or 2010, contact me and I will gladly post a copy here in your version's FTM format. Frankly since Ancestry.com took over FTM, it has gradually become less and less user friendly and I no longer recommend it for beginners. However it does speed up research, since it accesses Ancestry data seamlessly, and does smart searches directly from within the family tree. It has saved me thousands of hours of time in that respect.
I have also waited patiently for a "web page creator" feature in FTM, to no avail, therefore I have to export the database from FTM to Legacy, which then creates our William Dare Family web pages. So if you use Legacy, I often have a recent copy in that format available.
(available upon email request)
Adobe Report:
Relatives of William Dare
b 1605 of Devon, Dorset,and Somerset, England (Grandfather of Captain William
Dare of Lyme Regis)
WARNING - If printed, this report is many pages long!
(available upon email request)
Adobe Report:
Relatives of (another) William Dare
b 1600 of Devon, England (Adobe pdf
file - .6 MB - temporarily off line)
WARNING - If printed, this report is many pages long!