Elizabeth W. Knowlton wrote: >Thanks, Carlisle, for pointing us to the site. >I read the whole thing, including the sidebar links, >and can find no explanation of the haplogroups. >Can you give us further web pages to read? > > I believe I would lean towards Charles Kerchner's very superior tutorials: www.kerchner.com/contact.htm probably starting with his Testing Info & Resources Page. There is a glossary included in this latter. If I could have only one book on the subject it would be Megan Smolenyak and Ann Turner's Trace Your Roots; published by Holtzbrinck Publishers; a comprehensive, up to date, and very readable treatment. This is already a pretty good plateful, so I will stop here for the nonce. Regards, ck