Two announcements... We have a new participant, kit #36318, who traces back to Henry Bowles of Bedford County VA. We will have more information about this line posted on the website shortly. That gives us a total of 23 participants who have joined up in less than six months! We also have new 13-25 marker results posted for kit #34109, and there continues to be a strong likelihood of a match between #34109 and #31906, both of whom trace back to William and Sarah (Gum) Bowles. These two kits show a genetic distance of -2, that is they match on 23 of 25 markers. Given their documented evidence, they are most likely correct in their assumption of this lineage. On another note, several of you have contacted me privately about potential participants that you were hopeful of getting to join us. May I ask you to encourage these folks once again to sign up? Thanks, Charlie Hartley Bowles DNA Project Administrator [mailto:hartley@iglou.com]