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This project is a meeting place for users who share the R-A9703 Y-DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their paternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
Confirmed DNA results through the Big Y-500 (original Big Y) test, Big Y-700 test, and Y Elite test reveal that Henry Howland of Fenstanton's Haplogroup and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) is R-A9703. His haplotree line is R-M269 >> R-U106 >> R-Z8 > R-Z1 > R-Z344 > R-Z6 > R-A96 > R-S10415 > R-A9701 > R-A9703.
At the R-S10415 level, the Howlands match with several other surnames, for example, Wing, Baldwin, Foate, Mayberry, Hadley, and Rogers. At the R-A9701 level, the Howlands and the Rogerses separate themselves from all these other surnames because the Howlands and the Rogerses both share one mutation, A9701, but at the R-A9703 level, the Howlands separate themselves from the Rogerses.
The parentage of Arthur Howland, John Howland, and Henry Howland, Jr. has been confirmed by SNP testing by FTDNA kit #861275 (descendant of Arthur Howland), FTDNA kit #B587043 and FGC kit #E8PEF (descendants of Henry Howland, Jr.), and Big Y-500 tester (descendant of John Howland) which shows that they share 11 unique SNPs and are therefore all-male lineal descendants of Henry Howland Sr. They tested positive for all 11 Y-DNA SNPs which identified as A9702, A9703, A9704, A9706, A9707, A9708, FGC58199, FGC58202, FGC58206, FGC58207, and FGC58217 on the R-A9703 block level on the Y haplotree.
All 11 unique SNPs have occurred before the birth of Henry Howland of Fenstanton, and they are passed to his sons and their male descendants; however, there are more unique SNPs that occurred after the births of Arthur, John, and Henry Howland individually in their descendants' Y-DNA.
The more DNA testings can discover other SNPs unique to the descendants to trace the Y-DNA to one of three Howland sons in America. Recruiting additional Howlands for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their Y-DNA. See more information at Howland (Y-DNA) under the Mayflower DNA project and Howland DNA project under Family Tree DNA.
Sources
- General Society of Mayflower Descendants. “Mayflower: Official Project of General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD).” FamilyTreeDNA, FamilyTreeDNA.com, 2019, www.familytreedna.com/groups/mayflowersociety/about. Mayflower DNA Project - Y-DNA Colorized Chart.
- Family TreeDNA. Howland DNA Project. (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/howland/about: accessed 25 Feb 2020).
- Mayflower DNA. "Howland (Y-DNA)." (https://mayflowerdna.org/wiki/index.php?title=Howland_%28Y-DNA%29 Howland (Y-DNA): accessed 13 March 2020.)