Surnames
Boas, Boase, Boaz, Boe, Boes, Boetius, Boewe, Boey, Bohig, Bohill, Booe, Bouse, Bow, Bowe, Bowes, Bowige, Bows, Bowz, Boye, Boyes, Buo, Buoey, Buoy, Bwee, Bwoy, de Bowes
Background
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The Bowes (and variants) DNA Project is part of the
Bowes (and variants) One-Name Study that is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. It includes many variants (see explanation below) and serves two related missions:
1) It provides an additional tool in the family history researcher's toolkit, often providing information and clues unavailable elsewhere. Individual participants can find genetic matches to other participants who can share knowledge about their unique family history. They also learn what haplogroup their patrilineal ancestors belong to, whether Nordic, Western European, Northern Irish, Mideast, Native American, Jewish, Niall of the Nine Hostages or some other.
2) It contributes data to the Bowes (and variants) One-Name Study. This study encompasses all families with the Bowes surname, or one of its many variants, worldwide. It explores the origins, frequencies and evolution of the surname(s) and its various lineages and haplogroups. It includes developing a database over time of all historical 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. While contributing data to the One-Name Study you help provide greater context for understanding your unique family story in the context of the wider history of your surname.
About the Variants
The Guild of One-Name Studies allows for five additional variants to be registered per study. The Bowes One-Name Study currently includes Bowe, Bow, Boe, Bows and Boaz. These are infrequently adjusted as our body of knowledge takes shape.
In the DNA Project we cast a wide net to obtain any possible evidence that could support or refute historical theories about the origins of our surnames, and/or lead to new theories. The DNA Project variants often appear unrelated phonetically, but they have been carefully chosen using Irish and English surname origin research. In a few cases they include participants' surnames that are similar to the Guild variants, have no DNA project of their own, and are too few at this time to start one. Over time it may become more clear which subgroups are independent families/surnames in their own right and deserving of their own study. At that time those groups may splinter off and formalize their own study.
General Fund
To donate to the general fund please
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