About us
Our primary goal here is to connect all the matches of this Colonial Maryland Lowe y-DNA line with their ancestral roots in England. I've been researching my own line for 30+ years, and in 2017 have finally found my connection to our country of ancestral origin, England. So excited to share this with all of you!
You will find I am a proponent of the upgrade testing offered here at FTDNA. Had I been better informed earlier to do these available upgrades, I would have made these discoveries much sooner.
SNP I1-S2170 - I highly recommend the SNP I1-S2170 upgrade as your first step in this group, currently priced at $39. This will help to initially confirm that you are a match with the other Lowes in this project.
Family Finder - A very useful tool in locating closer relations in time spread across the branches of your tree. It identifies both paternal and maternal matches within 1-6 generations of yourself. I have been successful at confirming matches as far out as fourth and fifth cousins on several distant lines, thus helping to confirm these relationships for both sides. If you have not done Family Finder, I highly encourage that you do. It's always available well under $100.
Big-Y700 - The big upgrade, and worth every penny! If FTDNA had described it better on their ad, I would have done this test much sooner. This upgrade test is what finally brought the answers to my 30+ year journey. The bullet line item on their description, "For deep paternal ancestry", always had me thinking the wrong direction on "deep". I thought it meant deeper in time, further away from me, when in fact, it's the opposite. It brings forth the results of each step mutation from your most distant ancestor right down to you. That's the best way I can describe it in simple terms. It will identify your Haplogroup Subclade, which in our case is I1-S2170, along with novel variants unique to your line right down to you. As more Lowes from the I1-S2170 branches test Big-Y, it will date the novel variants of each of our lines, thus allowing geneticists to essentially place each of these novel variants in chronological order on our Lowe branches. If you can fit this test in your budget, I give high recommendation to do so, it's generally priced under $600. If you happen to be reading this around August, and then later in November-December holiday season, FTDNA offers sale prices and coupons that can bring this down well under $500.
You will find I am a proponent of the upgrade testing offered here at FTDNA. Had I been better informed earlier to do these available upgrades, I would have made these discoveries much sooner.
SNP I1-S2170 - I highly recommend the SNP I1-S2170 upgrade as your first step in this group, currently priced at $39. This will help to initially confirm that you are a match with the other Lowes in this project.
Family Finder - A very useful tool in locating closer relations in time spread across the branches of your tree. It identifies both paternal and maternal matches within 1-6 generations of yourself. I have been successful at confirming matches as far out as fourth and fifth cousins on several distant lines, thus helping to confirm these relationships for both sides. If you have not done Family Finder, I highly encourage that you do. It's always available well under $100.
Big-Y700 - The big upgrade, and worth every penny! If FTDNA had described it better on their ad, I would have done this test much sooner. This upgrade test is what finally brought the answers to my 30+ year journey. The bullet line item on their description, "For deep paternal ancestry", always had me thinking the wrong direction on "deep". I thought it meant deeper in time, further away from me, when in fact, it's the opposite. It brings forth the results of each step mutation from your most distant ancestor right down to you. That's the best way I can describe it in simple terms. It will identify your Haplogroup Subclade, which in our case is I1-S2170, along with novel variants unique to your line right down to you. As more Lowes from the I1-S2170 branches test Big-Y, it will date the novel variants of each of our lines, thus allowing geneticists to essentially place each of these novel variants in chronological order on our Lowe branches. If you can fit this test in your budget, I give high recommendation to do so, it's generally priced under $600. If you happen to be reading this around August, and then later in November-December holiday season, FTDNA offers sale prices and coupons that can bring this down well under $500.