{"id":75855,"date":"2025-10-23T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/?p=75855"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:57:52","slug":"y-dna-testing-its-not-just-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/es\/y-dna-testing-its-not-just-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Y-DNA Testing: It\u2019s Not Just For Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;195523&#8243;]By: Katy Rowe-Schurwanz<\/p>\n<h2>Even without a Y chromosome, women can unlock powerful genealogical insights through Y-DNA testing by testing their male relatives.<\/h2>\n<p>As females, we often overlook or dismiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/y-dna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y-DNA testing<\/a> either because we don\u2019t have a Y chromosome or because learning to use Y-DNA results can be intimidating at first because it\u2019s different from what we\u2019re used to. However, there are many <strong>genetic genealogy benefits<\/strong> gained from getting your father, brother, uncle, cousin, grandfather, and so on to take a Y-DNA test for you.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/family-finder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autosomal DNA testing<\/a> does look at all ancestral lines, it can only go back so far, and some information might be missed because autosomal DNA goes through random recombination every time it gets passed down. The <strong>Y chromosome never gets recombined<\/strong> and is passed down directly from father to son, so we\u2019re able to learn information about far more generations back in time with Y-DNA testing than we are with autosomal DNA testing. This helps <strong>break more genealogical brick walls<\/strong> (additionally\u2013 you can always get your relative to also take an autosomal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/mt-dna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an mtDNA test<\/a> as well as Y-DNA, which can grant you even more genetic genealogy benefits!).<\/p>\n<p>Historically, a lot of records kept were <strong>male focused<\/strong>, so when you\u2019re searching for genealogy records, you need to make sure you\u2019re on the right track. Since Y-DNA will match your male relative to others on the direct paternal line, this will help you match to any records you\u2019re looking at already, or you may find a DNA match that is able to help you take your <strong>paternal line back further generations in time<\/strong>. FamilyTreeDNA\u2019s results provide a number of tools to help you do this, like allowing you to view your matches\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/tmrca-age-estimates-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earliest Known Ancestors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/connect-wikitree-dna-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family trees<\/a> and to contact your matches.<\/p>\n<p>Y-DNA testing can also help you <strong>confirm or discover family stories<\/strong> and ancestral information that we as women would not be able to do on our own since we do not have our own Y chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Y-chromosomal haplogroup testing<\/strong> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/big-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Y-700<\/a> can confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/using-dna-testing-for-native-american-ancestry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native American ancestry<\/a> on the direct paternal line by tracing your ancestors\u2019 ancient migration path if all your direct male ancestors were Native American, and the level of refinement this advanced level of Y-DNA testing provides can sometimes tell you if your direct paternal line ancestors were from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/discovering-irish-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/y-dna-duncan-mcconnachie-isle-bute-scottish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/group-project-administrator-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a>, etc. depending on your results.<\/p>\n<h2>How Y-DNA Helped Me Learn About My Past<\/h2>\n<p>When I took over as our family genealogist and started building a family tree, there wasn\u2019t much information available about my direct paternal line. I bought my dad a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/y-dna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y-37<\/a> test for Christmas in 2015. When we got the results back a few weeks later, he had a handful of matches at Y-12, a smaller handful of matches at Y-25, and no matches at Y-37. None of the matches shared our surname (Rowe), although most of them had very similar sounding surnames (Lowe, Bowe, Crowley). I didn\u2019t know of a connection to any of those matches, potentially because they could share a common ancestor with my dad before surnames took hold, so I had some work to do.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image media=&#8221;75859&#8243; media_lightbox=&#8221;yes&#8221; media_width_percent=&#8221;50&#8243; lbox_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; lbox_social=&#8221;yes&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;169087&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;137625&#8243;]I started with what I did know. My parents had lots of photos of our ancestors, up to our ancestor who came over to Wisconsin from Cornwall, England around 1850, <strong>Henry Williams Rowe and his wife Caroline Roberts<\/strong>. I went through all those photos with my parents and matched the names with genealogical records.<\/p>\n<p>While researching records, I found a potential cousin who was also along the same direct paternal line. Eager to make sure my research was correct, I reached out to this potential cousin, and he agreed to test. I ordered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/y-dna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y-111<\/a> for both him and my dad to make sure they both matched up. I also ordered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/big-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Y upgrade<\/a> for my dad at the same time since I was curious to learn more about his <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familytreedna.com\/what-is-adna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ancient migration path<\/a>. This was Christmas 2017\u2013 two years after my dad\u2019s original test.<\/p>\n<p>When the Y-111 results came back, my dad and the potential cousin were a match! I had proven my research up through <strong>Henry Williams Rowe and Caroline Roberts<\/strong>. Also, even though my dad previously had zero matches at the Y-37 level, he ended up with a handful of matches at the Y-67 level who had been just outside the threshold at that lower level! Now I had even more to work with (although, with the exception of the cousin I tested, the pattern of only similar sounding surnames continued).<\/p>\n<h2>Looking into the future with advanced Y-DNA results<\/h2>\n<p>The Big Y-700<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familytreedna.com\/products\/big-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Y-700<\/a> came back a few weeks later, and I had another match there. Earlier this year, I upgraded it to the Big Y-700, and one of those Y-67 matches upgraded too; and we just came back as Big Y-700 matches last week! This means <strong>he\u2019s one of the closest matches my dad has<\/strong> in the FamilyTreeDNA database. I\u2019m excited to look more closely at these findings in the coming weeks and to see what other exciting results I can find out from my dad\u2019s Y-DNA test in the new year!<\/p>\n<p>None of this research would have been possible if I hadn\u2019t been able to test my dad. I\u2019m thankful he agreed to do this for me that Christmas four years ago, and <strong>I encourage all female genealogists out there not to hesitate and go ahead and get that Y-DNA test for your fathers, brothers, uncles, and grandfathers<\/strong>. It might be more work than an autosomal test initially and require some learning and patience, but <strong>the end result is worth it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to see what Y-DNA testing can reveal about your family\u2019s story? 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