Several times I have received requests from some new to DNA studies to direct them to a simplified explanation of how DNA and DNA for genealogy works. Most of what I found got complicated pretty quickly, so I decided to try to write one. I toyed with calling it "DNA for Dummies" after the series of books with similar names, but I decided that would be a bit too insulting. Paces aren't dummies. So I just called it "DNA Explained." Maybe I should have called it "DNA Simplifies" or maybe "DNA Oversimplified"-but whatever, you can access it at http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/DNAExplained.htm I invite comments and criticisms before I link it from the Pace DNA site. Roy Johnson