Hi, Being a yDNA surname admin myself, I see nothing wrong with it. Y DNA tests are for specific surnames, and the person just lists the different spellings for that particular surname. Now I did see an error in information about the mtDNA test but that is not here or there.. Personally, it follows all the rules... no company named no moneies mentioned... I'd say a nice informative message.. Nelda List and Board Admin and YDNA surname group admin... Nelda's websites - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Mary D. Taffet" <mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu> Reply-To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com To: BOARDS-ADMINS-L <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [BAd] Question about appropriateness of a message Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:49:44 -0400 Fellow admins, I am generally very tolerant of DNA-project-related messages placed on the message boards that I admin as long as there is no mention of a specific lab or dollar amounts, and no link for a specific testing company (so as not to fall into the commercial category). There is a message right now that does not include any of those items I look for in determining appropriateness, but it does include specific test names. Would those of you who are tolerant of rule-abiding DNA messages allow the following to stay on one of the boards you admin: <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jQEBAIB/136> -- Thanks, Mary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Nelda, When I meant test names, I didn't mean surnames. I mean names of specific DNA tests. I realize now that my statement was ambiguous; I should have clarified that I was concerned about the mentioning of specific DNA tests (i.e. 67 marker test, etc.). -- Thanks, Mary On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Nelda Percival wrote: > Hi, > Being a yDNA surname admin myself, I see nothing wrong with it. Y DNA tests > are for specific surnames, and the person just lists the different spellings > for that particular surname. Now I did see an error in information about the > mtDNA test but that is not here or there.. > > Personally, it follows all the rules... no company named no moneies > mentioned... I'd say a nice informative message.. > > Nelda > List and Board Admin and YDNA surname group admin... > > Nelda's websites - > http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives

Hi Mary, There are about 8 or better testing houses, each one offers a set of different tests. These tests go by various names, but the most common terms for the tests are the number of markers (the place on the dna string that is tested). So, although it is used as a name for a test the real name would be ySTR test for 67 markers.. a big mouthful and not commonly used...each company has some markers they test in common and then they have thier own markers that they discouvered and haven't released the info to yet... 67 marker test does not tell the common person that the test is a Y-STR Test of 67 markers (for males only)... we who are into DNA testing know what it means and what companies offer these markers... it is not a copyrighted term to a particular company... Nelda Nelda's websites - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives