The Great Dashora Family

Dashora Family Genealogy Data-base and and Web-Site

The site listed below is an extensive data base that provides genealogical information about members of the Extended Dashora Family, You can see information about individuals and families in graphical and text form. You can see family tree Charts (Wanshawalis) . Please note that our database includes both male and female members of the community.
The database and access to site is password protected and available only to members of the Extended Dashora Community.
Please send us an e-mail at nannu@dashora.ca if you need access to any of the site elements.
Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for more details about our Dashora Family Genealogy Data-base which when complete, (our ultimate objective!), would have information about each and every Dashora who ever existed and their close relatives.

The Great Dashora Family Genealogy
A user friendly interface to our data-base allows generation of genealogy charts and reports dynamically. This allows you to explore many great genealogical treasures.
You can create and view charts showing pedigree, decedents and ancestors of any person in the list including yourself and all your relatives.
Hourglass Charts show the ancestors and decedents in a single chart for any individual.
Using Relationship Charts you can find out how different individuals in the Extended Dashora Family are related to each other. The relationship diagrams permit viewing different chains of relationships (via common ancestor or via marriage) between people you choose. The great thing about these charts is that you can trace both paternal and maternal relationships and dependency.
The charts are "clickable" to allow you to navigate through different families.
The report generation capabilities allow getting "pdf " / printable files of individuals their pedigree, descendents, family data and more.
You can search for individuals using their names, nicknames or family names. Please note that for females we use their maiden name (family name at birth) as the last name.
Of course our data base still needs to be populated with more of relevant info. Once we have more information about dates of events such as births, deaths, marriages etc., calendars and timelines features will become more useful.
The data is continually updated as we get more info so please do visit the site often and most importantly contribute to the growth of our database .
You can gain access by signing up using the web interface or by sending us an e-mail at nannu@dashora.ca . If you join our mailing list you will receive periodic notification of major changes and what is new on our site. Please feel free to ask for assistance if you have difficulty in accessing or using the site.

Dashora Family Names

It is believed Dashora Community consists of people originally with 12 Gotras namely Koravya, Bhargava, Warahi, Dhannanjay, Mandavya, Gotam, Koshalya, Kondinya, Kapistal, Garg, and Kashyap. Each of the Gotras have their own last name sets and unique praying hierarchy. Dashoras of Rajasthan usually use "Dashora" as their last name but other Dashoras last names depending upon the sub section of their Gotra.

Acknowledgements

Many people have contributed to make this database. Also we wish to acknowledge books by Nandlal and Hari Shankar Dashora which have been very helpful in being able to include Rajasthan Dashora Families on our database. We are thankful to the publishers of Dashora Directory. We have incorporated lot of information from the Directory in our database you can access this information by following this link.

Request for Information

We are looking for information on both past and present generations and we have many specific questions in filling some of the "Missing Links" . Please take a look at some of the questions we have and give us any information that may help in making our database more complete and accurate. We wish to communicate with any volunteers who may want to assist us in providing more information. Please feel free to contact us anytime and we will be glad to hear from you.

What is not included

Please note that by Extended Dashora Community we mean Dashora Brahmin Families (with common ancestors as us), their descendants and the families of those related to them by marriage. Unless we gather historical data that points otherwise, other Dashora Communities such as Dashora Mahajans are not included in our genealogy data-base.

We are not actively researching the genealogical data for the families who have now become part of our data-base as a result of their marriage into the Dashora Community. However if any of their descendents wish to include their non-Dashora ancestry to our data-base - we encourage them to do so and we will be delighted to include the information submitted to us and connect them to the Extended Dashora Family .