We have three additional sets of results to report today. Kits 30760, 31654, and 31906 each received their 13-25 marker results. See the web page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/bowlesdna.html for the updated results. It has now been shown with a 25/25 match that kit 30760 and kit 29409 share a common Bowles ancestor. Kit 30760 traces back to Jeremiah Bowles, born 1816 in Franklin Co VA. Kit 29409 goes back to Joseph L. Bowles who was born about 1818, perhaps in Henry County VA. Kit 31906 now has his 13-25 markers, so we need to wait for kit 34109 to receive his. Recall that they matched 11/12 on the first 12 markers, and both claim William and Sarah (Gum) Bowles for ancestors. Kit 31654 continues to be an enigma. He traces back to Alexander H. Bowles who was in Henry County VA, but doesn't yet seem to match up with any others from that area. We definitely need additional folks to test in this area. Here is some census data that might be of interest to those searching in the Franklin Co VA area. 1820 Franklin County VA Census page 3 Jeremiah Bowles - 200010-30110 Ann Bowles - 100000-21010 Reuben Bowles - 000010-00010 William Bowles - 100100-00010 page 5 Joseph Bowles - 210010-31110 William Bowles - 120101-11001 page 6 George Bowles Jr. - 000010-00110 George Bowles Sr. - 000001-00001 Of particular interest may be the Jeremiah Bowles and the Joseph Bowles who each had two sons under 10. If you have questions about our DNA project, feel free to ask me. Charlie Hartley Bowles DNA Project Administrator [mailto:hartley@iglou.com]

I think I may have shared this information before, but maybe not. If two participants match 25/25 on the 25 marker test, then there is an increasingly strong probability that they share a common ancestor. Here are the percentages: 100 years - 61.17% 200 years - 84.92% 300 years - 94.15% 400 years - 97.73% 500 years - 99.12% 600 years - 99.66% Using kits 30760 and 29409 as examples, since they each can trace back to an ancestor born in the early 1800's in the same area of Virginia, which is about 200 years ago, there is a strong possibility that they are within finding one or two generations back to their common ancestor. Given that their known earliest ancestors are named Jeremiah and Joseph, I'd be looking pretty hard at the men in Franklin Co VA in 1820 named Jeremiah and Joseph who were known to have male children the right age to be born in the early 1800's. Hope this helps. Charlie Hartley Bowles DNA Project Administrator [mailto:hartley@iglou.com]