Project Goals
• The initial goal was to determine the Y-DNA chromosome YSTR marker alleles for various German speaking German and Swiss Bauman/Baumann immigrant family groups, along with those similar sounding English (Bowman, Boman) family surname groups in the USA.
• Related to the initial goal, was determining if any of them have a genetic direct male line ancestor in common in the USA and/or Europe in the last 200 to 600 years.
• Additionally, one goal is to find matching Bauman/Baumann families in Germany and Switzerland and link the distance USA cousins with their distant German speaking cousins in the homeland.
• An added goal is to find descendents of George Bowman and Mary Hite, to determine if he is related to the George Bowman, born in Bodigheim, Mosbach, Baden, Germany – who immigrated to Berks County, PA, then to Rockingham County, VA.
• Searching for descendents of Wendell Bauman, Germantown, PA in 1707, and later in Pequea Colony, Lancaster County, PA to match with Kit E2377 who's roots are from the Durrenmoss in Hirtzel, Switzerland.
* And, the latest goal is to find descendents of all Bowman families living in Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties of Virginia in the 1700s, to delineate and distinguish the Bowman families from each other according to their DNA profiles.