Member Count
26
Project Website
www.familytreedna.com/public/bowes/
Email
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Description
The Bowes (and variants) DNA Project includes many variants and serves two related missions:
1. It helps individual participants grow knowledge about their own family. Individual participants can join to find genetic matches to other participants so they can share knowledge about their unique family history. They also learn what haplogroup their paternal ancestors belong to, whether Nordic, Western European, Northern Irish, Mideast, Native American, Jewish, Niall of the Nine Hostages or some other.
2. It furthers knowledge in the Bowes (and variants) One-Name Study through the Guild of One-Name Studies (http://www.one-name.org/profiles/bowes.html). This project studies all families with the Bowes surname or one of its many variants, regardless of country of origin. It focuses on the origins of the surname(s), the distribution and concentrations of the surname(s), the various lineages, the haplogroups and developing a database of all records relating to these names.
While traditional genealogy zooms in on a particular pedigree, one-name studies zoom out on a surname generally. By joining the project you can further your own family research while contributing essential data to the study of these surnames worldwide. By contributing data to the Bowes (and variants) One-Name Study you help provide greater context for understanding your unique family story in the context of the larger story of your surname.
While the variants listed in the project often appear unrelated phonetically, they have been chosen using Irish and English surname origin research, along with some of our participants' names. We cast a wide net in this project to try to gather any possible evidence that could substantiate historical theories about the origins of our surnames, even if there may be reason to doubt those theories.
Requirements
A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname. Since surnames are passed down from father to son like the Y-chromosome, this test is for males taking a Y-DNA test. Females do not carry their father's Y-DNA and acquire a new surname by way of marriage, so the tested individual must be a male that wants to check his direct paternal line (father's father's father's...) with a Y-DNA12, Y-DNA37, or Y-DNA67 marker test. Females who would like to check their direct paternal line can have a male relative with this surname order a Y-DNA test. Females can also order an mtDNA test for themselves such as the mtDNA or the mtDNAPlus test and participate in an mtDNA project.
Surnames In This Project
Boag, Boase, Boaz, Boe, Boes, Boetius, Boey, Bogue, Bohig, Bohill, Bow, Bowe, Bowes, Bowie, Bows, Bowz, Boyce, Boye, Boyes, Buie, Buo, Buoy, Bwee, Cronin*, de Bowes, O Bey/Aubé, O Boey, O Bowe, O Bowige, O Boyce, O Boye, O Bwoy, O Sullivan, Sullivan