Need to identify close Y DNA matches at FTDNA, Ancestry, Y Search
I administer the Gower Y DNA project, at Family Tree DNA. I have a project member, who has close matches in the Family Tree DNA database, at Ancestry, and at Y Search, named both Gower and Gore.
I'm talking about gd of 1 at 37 markers. Specifically, DYS 449 is 30 vs 31.One person tested at Ancestry and they share 30 markers, gd is 0-1 depending on a conversion factor.
Identifying her Y DNA matches may place this project member in a different Gower or Gore family group than she believes she belongs to, or help identify the actual Y DNA haplotype of this Gower family.So far this family has tested three people with three Y DNA haplotypes, one of which clearly belongs to another family.
Gower and Gore are often the same surname. Not everyone knows that. Historically they often had the same pronunciation. One of the matches may belong to a Missouri family that mixed up the spellings in the mid 19th century.Family Tree DNA has allowed both a Gore and a Gower surname project to exist, which means they don't realize that Gower and Gore are often the same surname.I recall a lengthy argument to convince them that Goer isn't the same surname (that project appears to trace a single lineage surname).One consequence of this is that if for instance C. G. Gore chose to only match the same surname in the system, then close matches who spell the name Gower aren't going to show on their matches, forcing us to go fishing to find these people.
We are working hard on the history of this Gower family group, and it is important to get these peoples' lineages.
Two of these people each paid $268 to test 67 markers at Family Tree DNA.It is logical to think they actually want to find their matches, even though they appear to have made errors in the way they set up the ability of their matches to see them in the system or to contact them.
Here is who I need to find. If anyone even knows who they might be, I'd sure appreciate hearing from them. Please either answer me here, or e-mail me at [email protected] (should also be some e-mail address or other attached to my profile)
If this cross posts to the Gore list, please e-mail me at the address above because if you click reply, it will go straight to hyperspace.
C. G. Gore tested 67 markers at Family Tree DNA, and then posted them at Y Search. No other information. Either C. G. Gore is administering the account of Derrie Gene Gore, or CG's results are not matching my Gower project member in the FTDNA database. That would mean that C. G. Gore didn't consent for the results to match in the FTDNA database, or consented for surname matching only, and FTDNA doesn't know that Gore and Gower are often the same surname. Actually, if FTDNA did know that, there wouldn't be both a Gore project and a Gower project.
Derrie Gene Gore tested 67 markers at Family Tree DNA. The contact e-mail address is [email protected] . There is a chance that this person is dead, and a descendant listed his name in place of earliest known ancestor in the database, and administors his DNA.I can hope he, or whoever is administering his account, even remembers what e-mail address he specifically set up for Family Tree DNA matches to contact him. While the e-mail has not yet bounced, I didn't know usa.com e-mail still existed; I've no idea when he tested. You would think a name like that would be easy to find, but actually the country is full of Derrie/ Darryl G Gores.
Derrie Gene Gore BOTH spent $268 on a Y DNA test, and joined the Gore Y DNA project.I wrote to the Gore project administrator, but project administrators actually aren't often helpful when it comes to tracking down project members; they sometimes only know as much as I do.
Paternal ancestor James A. Gower, contact person C. Gaines. I may or may not have identified her; Gaines is a common last name. I haven't heard back from the person I contacted. The C. Gaines whose posts I have found online is related to a Missouri Gower family who may have sometimes spelled the name Goar/ Gore.However, it is odd that that C. Gaines would have listed James A. Gower as her earliest known ancestor; she has been working hard on John and Charles Gower/ Goar much farther down that line than any of its James A. Gowers.It is conceivably possible that she just listed her father.Since Gaines is a common name and there have been a number of James A. Gowers around the country over the years one can't conclude it's the same family without confirmation.
Thanks alot!
Yours,
Dora Smith