BEMIS, BEMUS, BEAMS, BEAMES, BEEMUS, BEMAS, BEAMISS, BEAMIS, BEMISS, BEAMISH and any other reasonable spelling variations are welcome to join the project. Only males have Y-chromosomes, so only male BEMIS or variants can participate. If you are female, you can have a male BEMIS relative submit a sample for your line. To participate meaningfully, testees will need to share their direct male line ancestry back to the earliest known BEMIS, in the form of a pedigree (excluding living persons).