THE NATION · DARE FAMILY ARCHIVE
EVERY LIFE HAS A BEFORE

BEFORE EVERY PERSON
CAME THOUSANDS
OF OTHERS.

Explore the people, places, photographs and stories that made this family possible. The archive is still growing.

WHO ARE YOU IN THIS TREE?Viewing as GuestChoose yourself to make every relationship speak from your point of view.
EXPLORE THE FAMILY →See what’s inside
THE LIVING ARCHIVEPeople become stories.
Records become lives.Open the photographs, documents and surviving pieces →
RESEARCH ACTIVE

The archive is still growing.

Every new person, photograph, place and story expands what we know. These numbers reflect the archive as it exists today, not where the search ends.

SEE WHAT’S NEW →
—PEOPLE & COUNTING—GENERATIONS TRACED—FAMILY NAMES IN THE ARCHIVE—EARLIEST DATE ON RECORD
LATEST FROM THE RESEARCH
New discoveries continue to enter the archive.
THE ARCHIVE TODAY

More than names and dates.

—VISUAL RECORDS
—PLACES SURFACED
—STORIES PRESERVED

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WHO ARE YOU IN THIS TREE?

Choose your place in the family.

Select yourself so relationships throughout BEFORE can be described from your point of view.