The Great Dashora Family

What is new
(In reverse chronological Order)

February  , 2015
Significant changes have been made to the www site during the period from 2009 - 2015.   We are sorry we have not used this page to record the changes.

Some of the changes are:

February 01  , 2009
Upgraded to New version of PhpGedview.  This version has many new features.  Interactive Charts has features that include zooming and panning into details of any persons charts.  Monthly and yearly Calendars  are now operational. Also interesting statistics are available.
We now show We now have over 5500 names. 

June 23  , 2008
Added  pictures of some of the Dashora Family Shrines We invite your contribute  photos of shrines of your family.
We have more than 5400 names in our database now.

May 13  , 2008
Added a new section "News / INFOrmation". This section will contain any News or Information items submitted by the members of Dashora Community.
We invite your contributions. The guide lines and policies for publishing in this section will be decided as this section evolves.

April 13  , 2008
We have created a page showing 1:1 correspondence between names in  Dashora Directory and the individual ID in our data-base.  The  page also provide simple instruction on creating charts for individuals listed in Dashora Directory

April 11  , 2008
We   have now added addresses from the 2007 edition of Dashora Directory. . The list continues to grow thanks to continuous flow of information  from many  users. We now have about 5250 names.  A new FAQ page has been added to answer some of the questions about the data-base.

March 16  , 2008
We   have now received (Thanks to Mr. Prakash Dashora) a copy of  the new edition of Dashora Directory. Over next few weeks we will be updating our database with the new addresses available. The list continues to grow thanks to continuous flow of information  from many  users. We now have over 5200 names.

February 1  , 2008
We  are excited to have  received a correspondence  claiming that there is a wanshawali available for Shri Vikas Dashora ( Vyas Bhatt) who came to Maheshwar (M.P.) in the year 1231. We are eagerly awaiting to receive a copy of that wanshawali and  to include it in our site as it will push our knowledge of origin of Dashora Family few years beyond what is documented in the books by Nandlal Dashora (700 years of Dashora History).

December 1  , 2007
We now have a new domain. This this site and The  Dashora Family Genealogy  can now be accessed with the new URL http://www.dashora.ca

We have also installed a wiki server and hope to bring a new wiki site for Dashora Family in the new year.
We hope that this wiki will serve as a useful resource for Dashora Family.

November 17 , 2007
Our list continues to grow. We now have over 5100 individual names over 2200 families incorporated in our database. We have begun to add photographs and have added about 200 photographs. The server and the software has been upgraded for a faster response. 

We welcome and thank many new user who have contributed significantly in past few months.  We encourage all members of the Extended Dashora Family to take advantage of data that is available by  requesting an account.

 We understand that a  new version (4th Edition)   of Dashora Directory  was published in July 2007.
(Can any body send us an electronic or paper copy?) 

We do not have a copy yet but once we get hold of one we will enter new address information and update our database to reflect latest available information.  

January 12, 2007
Thanks to Mr Prakash Dashora we have added many new names and links. We acknowledge   family info received via Krishn Kumar Dashora / Prakash Dashora. Also we have added reference to a new book by Nandlal Dashora on 700 years of Dashora Family History. Also we appreciate the permission granted to to make scanned version of these books available on the www site. We will make these available on this website in near future.

June 28, 2006
Changes to History  and Myths and legends page and added info about Nagars  and Gujarat origins  and Hatkeswar Temple.

June 23, 2006
A new version (4.0) of phpgedview software to generate dynamic pages was successfully installed. It is faster and provides many new chart types, and report generation capabilities.  Our database has nearly 4900 names.

May 31, 2006
We have updated the history page to include possible origins in Gujrat around 10th century. Many families have been updated as well

April  27, 2006
We now have a new URL http://nannu.pugmarks.com/dashora-family. Also the Genealogy site has been improved for faster operations and many new features have been added including ".pdf"  reports and charts.

March  15, 2006
Changes made to the History page. Added some info about the Mandsaur (Dashpur) region and the origin of Dashora  Community. Also added a picture of Sati Mata Shrine in Rampura. Created a Myths and Legends section.

February  28, 2006
We have now added all the 19 family trees from the book by Nandlal and Hari Shankar Dashora. This brings the number of people listed to over 4800.

February  2, 2006
A new site has been added - you can do very quick searches and you can see 5 generation pedigree and children of any individual. Requires javascript.  (This site is no more functional).

January 31, 2006
Monthly update for January 2006. We now have 4200 individuals. We have also entered addresses from Rajasthan Dashora Directory in our data base. Please feel free to send us corrections and updates. 

December 30, 2005
Monthly update for December is done. We now have 4082 names. We have added another chart from the Dashora book.

December 3, 2005
Both Shantnu and Pravin traveled to India last month. we used this opportunity to gather information. We were able to contact many relatives in Jaipur and in Indore. We are specially thankful to Pramod Dashora (both of them) and Deepti Dashora for valuable information provided by them/ Through their efforts we also were able to get the latest edition (November 2004+2005 corrections Pages) of Nandlal Dashora's book "Dashora (Brahmin) Jati Mewad Wanshawalian avam Wansh Parichay" i.e. Introduction to Dashora Brahmin Families and their Family Trees. We have been able to incorporate many of these  families in our tree structure. As a result now we have more than 4000 names in our data-base.  Here are some examples of charts that we are able to produce.

November, 2005
We now have some of the  book by Nandlal Dashora with genealogical charts for Dashora Families in Udaipur. We also have a directory with names and addresses of Dashoras from Udaipur region published by him, however we have difficulty in cross-correlating the names in the directory with names in family trees. Also since the female decedents and inter-relationships are not mentioned in there we are attempting to get information to be able to connect Udaipur Dashora Families to our tree.

October 5, 2005
This month we were slow in getting information. But still we now have 1809 individuals and 666 families listed.
With the data we have we can now generate interesting charts l

September 2, 2005

Our Complete August end  update is now available. We have 1750 individuals and 650 families.

August 11, 2005
We have an interim update as we received a lot of new information during this month. We now have more than 1660 individuals and 620  families.
Sachin and Loveena Nagar announce the birth of their son Anish on August 5, 2005, 9:02 PM.

July 18, 2005
A mailing list was created. All web site users are automatically on that list. The users  and those who join our mailing list  will receive periodic notification of updates on the web site and will be informed about what is new on our web site about once a month. In addition we may use it to broadcast relevant messages about Dashora community such as births, marriages,  deaths, and significant events for Dashora Community. The list is a private list and only the list administrators can post to the list. If you wish to contribute messages to the list please contact us and if appropriate we will include your message with our next posting.

July 12, 2005
R. Manohar  received a booklet from  from Udaipur which gives family trees of most of Dashora families there. However we do not find too many links between Indore and Udaipur Dashora people. It appears that the MP group remained unconnected to the Udaipur to a large extent. Udaipur charts refer to  Gotra and Avatank  - we are not sure of  these for MP Dashoras. It appears that Narendra Dashora has written an earlier book tracing the History of migration from Gujarat.  That book may provide more clues to relationship between MP  and Rajasthan Dashoras. Hopefully we may be able get hold of that book one day.

Also the Udaipur books/charts  are silent about any female names. This is a real set back as most of relationship information comes via marriage. Connections between Udaipur Dashoras and between them and MP  Dashoras are hard to establish without information regarding females and marriage data.  Also we realize that we do not know of good sources in the Udaipur who may be enthusiastic, willing and able to research and provide info to us.

July 10, 2005
A new section "what is new" is added which is aimed informing what is new and providing links to archived information.

July 8, 2005
A new section "request for info" is added which is an archive of unanswered questions that we are discussing between ourselves

June, 2005
We continue discussions, keep adding people also add photographs and at the June end merge we have 1250 individuals and 425 families in our data base

June 3,2005
Shantnu creates a prototype site for Dashora Family Genealogy

May 31,2005
The monthly merge is completed and checked with many errors fixed and duplicates removed. We have about 1100 individuals in our database after this merge.

May 20,2005
Anik adds php modules to web server at Shantnu's home and first demonstration www site created using PhpGedView

May 1-20,  2005
We continue adding people as information arrives or by joint memory recalls. Shantnu studies what is available for genealogical software - tries various software suits and we converge on some of the tools to use. Concludes that Legacy software permits export to GEDCOM-5.5 format and tools are available to create www site dynamically by just re-loading  the gedcom files. The final list of tools we converge: Legacy to create data-base, Ged-Visual  and PhpGedView to create static and dynamic content. Shantnu creates a few experimental pages to view output of some of the software programs. R. Manoher experiments with creating written reports and pdf format documents

 April 21-30, 2005
The first end of the month merge has a data-base of close to 1000 individuals. Many entries are verified and corrected by discussing via numerous e-mails.

April 20, 2005
Pravin uses the available data to create a password protected www site  (This site is not functional anymore)

April 20, 2005
R. Manohar starts contacting relatives in India to gather more info. He suggests that rather than just having charts if we go at it we may have material to publish a book.

 April 13-18, 2005
Shantnu joins them in Chicago and rest of week is spent remembering the names, inputting the data and connecting all relatives. Soon we realize that the scope of the data base will encompass all of the Dashora Community. We also decided that Pravin will be the keeper of the data-base. We will individually and collaboratively continue to research and  merge our files periodically (say on a monthly basis). By the time we leave Chicago we have about 750 individuals on our data base

 April 9-12, 2005
R. Manohar  visited  Pravin in Chicago.  They talk about creating a genealogical chart. They decide to use modern day computer program to create the data base. R. Manohar does essential research to choose Legacy 5.0 as the software to create the data base - acopy is procures and they and start inputting info.