I've been trying to find an easy way of explaining DNA to drum up more support for my surname study,and have put a post on my blog https://sennettfamilytree.wordpress.com/ entitled "Genealogical DNA for Dummies". Not being a DNA expert at all, but just wanting to get folk enthused about the possibilities, I'm not sure if my post has hit the mark. I'd therefore be interested to get any feedback on whether folk here think what I have written explains enough (but not too much) that it would encourage someone to look a bit more into taking a DNA test. In the interests of not clogging up the mailing list, it might be easier to send feedback directly to me at sennett@one-name.org Thanks. Corinne Curtis #5579

As someone who took a Y-chromosome test a year ago and has included a DNA page on my website - to no avail - I would appreciate hearing from anyone experience of this. And, as I suspect I'm not alone in this, could I ask that those who respond to Corrine, do so publicly rather than privately. In the 21st century, this is an issue of potential interest to all of us. John Plester

Thank you for this. Despite doing genetics as my third year project in medical school, I still sometimes have problems getting to grips with it when related to family trees. This confirms that I understand the Y-DNA fairly well (I think). Have to mention thought, when and how was is found that males got any part of the X from their father? It was along while ago that I did the genetics and it is a quickly changing area of study. Nikki #6552 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinne Curtis via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 1:48:30 PM Subject: [G] feedback request I've been trying to find an easy way of explaining DNA to drum up more support for my surname study,and have put a post on my blog https://sennettfamilytree.wordpress.com/ entitled "Genealogical DNA for Dummies". Not being a DNA expert at all, but just wanting to get folk enthused about the possibilities, I'm not sure if my post has hit the mark. I'd therefore be interested to get any feedback on whether folk here think what I have written explains enough (but not too much) that it would encourage someone to look a bit more into taking a DNA test. In the interests of not clogging up the mailing list, it might be easier to send feedback directly to me at sennett@one-name.org Thanks. Corinne Curtis #5579 _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In case it's of interest there is a lot of material on the subject of DNA testing in the ISOGG Wiki: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/ The beginners' guides listed here might be of particular interest: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guides_to_genetic_genealogy Best wishes Debbie