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The Bloor DNA Project welcomes all participants. We encourage you to join today!
The surnames in this DNA Project are researched as part of the Bloor surname study, which is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. You can learn more about this significant research, and the associated family trees, by visiting the one-name study web site, or contacting the Project Administrator.
http://one-name.org/name_profile/Bloor
The Y DNA test tells you about your direct male line, which would be your father, his father, and back in time. You must be male to take this test, and you should have one of the surnames shown. If you believe there is a Bloor or variant in your direct male line, although you have a different surname, you are also welcome to participate. If you are female, you will need to find a direct line male in your family tree to participate and represent your tree.
We encourage males to order a Y-DNA test for 37 markers, if possible. If you order less markers, you can upgrade later, though this costs a little more.
Both males and females may also be interested in learning about their direct female line, which would be their mother, their mother's mother, and back in time. Both men and women inherit mtDNA, although only women pass it on. To explore your direct female line, you would order a mtDNA test. For matches in a genealogical time frame, order the mtDNA Full Sequence test.
To find matches across all branches of your family tree, you want to order Family Finder, which is an autosomal DNA test. This test works about 5 generations back, sometimes more. To maximize the benefit of this test, researching all branches of your family tree back 4-5 generations is valuable. This test works for both males and females.
The results of the DNA tests mentioned, Y DNA, mtDNA, and Family Finder, contain no personal information, and you will match or be a close match to those to whom you are related. This is an opportunity to learn more about your origins and ancestry.
Order your test kit today and join us in making discoveries.
We have also established a General Fund, to accept donations in any currency via credit card. These funds will be held at the testing company, and used to help sponsor test kits for those key males who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost of participation in the project.
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.
There are two blore words in Old English. One meaning windy, or wind-swept, and presumably a bit bleak, which aptly describes both places. The other means a raised lump, blister or pimple, and could be used to describe the areas around both Blore places.
There is a hill near Abergavenny, in Wales, called Blorenge, and it is thought possible that the name derives from a similar Welsh word, plor, which also means a pimple.
The two Blore places in England 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 80 years, we have, at the moment identified 112 separate Blo(o)r(e) trees, many with their origins in births or marriages that took place several hundred years ago. Many of these trees have living Blo(o)r(e) descendants.
We suspect, and the results from our Blo(o)r(e) DNA project support this, that at least some of these trees are really connected.
We are now finding evidence that some Blewers and Blowers in the Midlands of England are probably Blo(o)r(e)s whose surname has been transformed by the influence of local accents.
The surnames in this DNA Project are researched as part of the Bloor surname study, which is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. You can learn more about this significant research, and the associated family trees, by visiting the one-name study web site, or contacting the Project Administrator.
http://one-name.org/name_profile/Bloor
The Y DNA test tells you about your direct male line, which would be your father, his father, and back in time. You must be male to take this test, and you should have one of the surnames shown. If you believe there is a Bloor or variant in your direct male line, although you have a different surname, you are also welcome to participate. If you are female, you will need to find a direct line male in your family tree to participate and represent your tree.
We encourage males to order a Y-DNA test for 37 markers, if possible. If you order less markers, you can upgrade later, though this costs a little more.
Both males and females may also be interested in learning about their direct female line, which would be their mother, their mother's mother, and back in time. Both men and women inherit mtDNA, although only women pass it on. To explore your direct female line, you would order a mtDNA test. For matches in a genealogical time frame, order the mtDNA Full Sequence test.
To find matches across all branches of your family tree, you want to order Family Finder, which is an autosomal DNA test. This test works about 5 generations back, sometimes more. To maximize the benefit of this test, researching all branches of your family tree back 4-5 generations is valuable. This test works for both males and females.
The results of the DNA tests mentioned, Y DNA, mtDNA, and Family Finder, contain no personal information, and you will match or be a close match to those to whom you are related. This is an opportunity to learn more about your origins and ancestry.
Order your test kit today and join us in making discoveries.
We have also established a General Fund, to accept donations in any currency via credit card. These funds will be held at the testing company, and used to help sponsor test kits for those key males who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost of participation in the project.
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.
There are two blore words in Old English. One meaning windy, or wind-swept, and presumably a bit bleak, which aptly describes both places. The other means a raised lump, blister or pimple, and could be used to describe the areas around both Blore places.
There is a hill near Abergavenny, in Wales, called Blorenge, and it is thought possible that the name derives from a similar Welsh word, plor, which also means a pimple.
The two Blore places in England 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 80 years, we have, at the moment identified 112 separate Blo(o)r(e) trees, many with their origins in births or marriages that took place several hundred years ago. Many of these trees have living Blo(o)r(e) descendants.
We suspect, and the results from our Blo(o)r(e) DNA project support this, that at least some of these trees are really connected.
We are now finding evidence that some Blewers and Blowers in the Midlands of England are probably Blo(o)r(e)s whose surname has been transformed by the influence of local accents.