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Last up-dated November 2, 2008 23:22 AEST
'Tis sad to announce the passing of Dan O'Connor, a descendant of the Quinlan clan, Rhode Island, USA
Died 30th October, 2008
Due to age, Dan suffered kidney failure in his last weeks.
A true gentleman.
New!!!! !!!
Contact with another descendant of Harry Miller, Rose's brother.. in England. June 2008.
New!!!! Finally! Contact!!! Rose Miller's brother -Harry Kendrick Miller's descendants... and anecdotal/written evidence matching! Contact with Martyn (Dusty) in England found through internet via Ancestry. January 5th 2008
New!!! Contact! With Simon (England)... through Ancestry... through links with Charles Adam Blore, brother to Frederick. December 29th 2007.
New!! More updated Blore findings... descendants/relations in both England and Australia!! Oct 2007. Link through Blore page.
New! O'Connor (Chris/Sylvester) findings... with Barb H. (Melbourne) an O'Connor descendant. Link through Blore page.
New! More findings on locating the ultimate fate of George Williams!
DNA PROJECT September 2007
BE A PART OF IT!!!
If you are a BLOOR, BLOORE or BLORE or a variation of... this may interest you.
The Blo(o)r(e) Society's DNA Project is up and running....The PROJECT GOAL... according to Project Coordinator Dr Ian Bloor (UK)
"Y-chromosome testing of male Blo(o)r(e)s from the trees that we have already documented could confirm, or disprove, connections between what seem to be separate branches.We would then know where to concentrate our efforts on finding traditional, documentary evidence for the links.Y-chromosome testing of male Blo(o)r(e)s who have no known connection to an established tree could help provide them with a link to their ancestry, or could identify a hitherto unknown branch - an exciting event for we One-Namers."The tests are conducted by FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) in Houston, Texas, USA.
"What we need now is more male Blo(o)r(e)s willing to spend the US$193 (around £98.25 at today's exchange rate or A$236 ....Aussie) that it costs to get a 37-marker test done.
If you are a male Blo(o)r(e) - or if you've got one in captivity who would be willing to part with a little DNA - and you're interested in helping us sort out which of the 50+ separate Blo(o)r(e) trees are linked, and which are not, then please visit the Project Website, which is at:-http://www.familytreedna.com/public/The-Blo(o)r(e)-Society-DNA-Project
You'll find my version of why we are doing this - pretty much what I've just said anyway - and links to explanations of the technology and what's involved and security and data-protection and so on.
I can assure you that, apart from the twinge in the wallet, I've found the process is quite painless.
If you've got any questions about the Project, pleased contact me through my Project Administrator's e-mail address, which is dnaproject@bloor.org "
After 25 years of my own research, Dr Ian Bloor's conclusions re the Blore, Bloor, Bloore origins are exactly the same as mine The following is taken from Ian's Blo(o)r(e) DNA project website:
Project Background:
"The surnames Bloor, Bloore and Blore are 'toponymics' - names derived from a place - and have their origins in North Staffordshire, in England, where there are two places called Blore.
One is a village near the eastern boundary with Derbyshire, where there is the church, the vicarage and Blore Hall, a picnic-site, and not much more.
The other Blore is near the western boundary with Shropshire, where Blore Heath was the site of the first battle of The War of the Roses in 1459, re-enacted every year over the last weekend in September. There's no church, no vicarage, no Hall and no picnic-site.
The word blore is Old English, meaning windy, or wind-swept, and presumably a bit bleak, which aptly describes both places.
These are the places in which most, if not all, of the Bloors, Bloores and Blores in the world have their origins.
It is interesting to find that almost 50% of all the Blo(o)r(e)s in the UK still live within 50 miles of Stoke-on-Trent, which lies roughly midway between the two Blore villages.
The Blo(o)r(e) Society was established in 1996 with objectives which include providing support for members and correlating the results of their individual researches into their own family trees.
Building on the results of traditional family history research over more than 70 years, we have, at the moment - 11th March 2007 - identified more than 50 separate trees, many with their origins in births or marriages that took place several hundred years ago. Many of these trees having living Blo(o)r(e) descendants.
We suspect, but cannot prove, that at least some of these trees are really connected."
At present we some Bloor, Bloore and Blore males involved! More wanted ...if you are interested.
This site will enable Blores and their relatives and friends to contact more easily and enjoy the benefits of research covered by others for future generations.
Leo Blore, Mooloolaba, Australia
