I sure do wish I were joining you, but we had a lot of females in our Bowles line. Here though, are the surname variations I've been collecting that we've documented as being strongly possible for one of ours. Yours, Linne Baies Bailes Bails Baldin Bale Bales Ball Ballin Balls Baoles Baus Bawles Bayle Bayles Beals Beels Beiles Beles Bewles Biles Billes Bills Boal Boaling Boals Boan Boas Boase Boauls Boaz Boehle Boel Boelds Boele Boeles Boels Boes Boiles Boils Boland Bolas Bold Boldin Bolding Bolds Boldwin Bole Boles Boling Boll Bolla Bolle Bolles Bollin Bolling Bollo Bolls Bolus Bolz Booles Booling Boolis Booll Bools Boos Booze Bos Bornles Boueels Bouhl Boughles Boules Bouls Bow Bowel Bowell Bowels Bowes Bowies Bowldwin Bowle Bowles Bowlin Bowling Bowls Bowlus Bows Boyl Boyle Boyles Boyll Boyls Boys Boze Buls Byars Byles Bylss >Things moved faster than I thought they would! > >The Bowles DNA Surname Project, in conjunction with Family Tree DNA, >is now officially open for business. The following link will take >you to the webpage where you can join the group and place your order >for a Y-DNA kit. > >http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=W26816&special=true > >While Family Tree DNA offers a variety of DNA kits, you will want to >select from the three Y-DNA kits: > >Y-DNA12 -- Male 12 marker paternal test ... $99(Group) >Y-DNA25 -- Male 25 marker paternal test ... $169(Group) >Y-DNA37 -- Male 37 marker paternal test ... $229(Group) > >If you choose either the 12 marker or 25 marker test, you may >upgrade it later for an additional fee. > >Personally I recommend the 25 marker test to start. The odds are >good that you will want to upgrade from 12 to 25 markers later, and >doing the 25 marker test first will save you $20. The 37 marker test >may be overkill to begin, and should you later find a need for it, >you can upgrade for a fee. > >Feel free to ask me questions. You may contact me from the "Contact >the Bowles Group Administrator" link on the webpage given above, or >you may email directly at [mailto:hartley@iglou.com]. > >One final note: I did not attempt to list variants of the Bowles >surname since there are potentially so many of them, but all with >variant spellings are welcome and encouraged to join in. > >Charlie Hartley