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Welcome to our Dare Family web site!

(see our Dare Family Y-DNA results below!)

Dare Family Researchers have compiled a database of over 133,500 names over the last 100 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 100th Annual
Dare Family Association Reunion!

Saturday September 16^th, 2023

^{held at:}

^{The Shipyard,

60 Main St, Pennsville, New Jersey, 08070}

^{11:00 AM to 3:00 PM}

To attend, Click Here for more details:

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.

This reunion is open to all Dare Families, regardless of your ancestral line! Since we have linked over 80 % of the Dares in America by DNA, we'd like to meet you, if you have a Dare ancestry! We have a historical display and archive that includes many Dare family lines.

^{DNA Info:}

Important side note: Over 80% of the Dares in America are not descended from a Dyer Family Line, as some people once thought before DNA tests of Dyers and Dare were compared! They are radically different. So the Dyers are not our ancestors.

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

We use FamilyTreeDNA.com and have a Dare Family group discount there. FamilyTreeDNA is the best site for Y-DNA testing (male lineage). Our 37 marker Dare Y-DNA is as follows (for both South Jersey and Calvert Co, Maryland Dare immigrants):

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 ---

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:

Jim Dare - - - - - President Bill@DareFamily.com

Debbie Duffield - - - - Vice President

Rachel Burgess - - - Director of Activities

Wendy Burgess - - - - Treasurer Treasurer@DareFamily.com (paypal accepted)

Membership entitles you to participate in the business meeting of the Association and supports further research into our family history!
Please send your $10.00 membership fee (per year) to our treasurer:
         Mrs. Wendy Burgess
         The Dare Family Association
         9 Speer Road
         Wilmington, DE 19809

Our Dare family database currently contains over 45,000 direct descendants of William Dare of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England; over 2590 descendants of Johannis Dare of Devon, England, whose descendants came to Calvert Co, Marland; a few other Dare lines from around the world; as well as 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 send updates or corrections to the family tree please send your e-mails to: bill@darefamily.com

Also, if you would like to send pictures, documents, or family trees, please email them for our archives!

This web site deals with our family history - our past,

but are you ready for your future?
To PREPARE FOR YOUR FUTURE click here