Dear Joy, Your suggestions are good. My own advice is not to put all your information retrievals from one source as factual. Quite often companies are biased by what they say and what they do not say. It is like being well read. The more sources you visit the more confidence you will find the right answers. Charles Kerchner has an excellent web site for people who want to dig into the real answers that are rarely addressed on a Company DNA site. Genealogy DNA-L is a Rootsweb sponsored DNA discussion site where you really get to see discussions on what DNA testing is all about. It is a pain to keep up with as there is more than 300 postings a day. However the people who post there let all the problems hang out. From all the discussions sooner or later you will arrive at a conclusion from the discussions. Also it is a good source to find more advanced testing and DNA calculators that let you infer more information from your DNA information, especially within your family group of many people. God Bless. Herb Hendricks Retired NASA Physicist Hendricks DNA Project Group Administrator Secretary Hendricks Family Association Herb_316@MSN.com<mailto:Herb_316@MSN.com> 1210 Long Meadow DR Lynchburg, VA 24502 434 832 7246 Major/Smith/Hendricks http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/<http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/> ----- Original Message ----- From: Joy King<mailto:joyk@sc.rr.com> To: SCANDERS-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:SCANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [SCAnderson] DNA participant question As the co-admin. of the SIZEMORE surname DNA project I'd like to suggest anyone that is interested in DNA testing should subscribe to FTDNAs *free* Facts & Genes monthly newsletter. You can sign up here: http://www.ftdna.com/fgregister.asp<http://www.ftdna.com/fgregister.asp> Another site that should be consulted is the International Society of Genetic Genealogy: http://www.isogg.org/<http://www.isogg.org/> When our project started in 2002, 12 markers was the then standard. The results did *confirm* the marker signature for the surname in America. As time has progressed and more markers became available, we have upgraded some of these results to 25 & 37 markers and now suggest new participants use the 37 marker test if *financially* possible. Basically, the more marker results you have, in combination with the genealogical research, the closer you come to being able to separate the individual lines in a meaningful genealogical time frame. Joy King Co-admin of the SIZEMORE surname DNA project Home page: http://www.genpage.com/sizemoreDNA.html<http://www.genpage.com/sizemoreDNA.html> Results page: http://www.genpage.com/DNAindex.html<http://www.genpage.com/DNAindex.html> Earliest research: http://www.genpage.com/history_surname.html<http://www.genpage.com/history_surname.html> ==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~scander2/index.html<http://www.rootsweb.com/~scander2/index.html> ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx>

Herb, I intended my suggestions to be *additions* to the ones you had already mentioned. I too joined the Genealogy-DNA mailing list when we started our project in 2002, but had to unsubscribe a couple of years later due to the enormous volume of daily emails from the list. I do check their archives when time permits. Another site of interest is: http://worldfamilies.net/ Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: Herbert Hendricks To: SCANDERS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [SCAnderson] DNA participant question Dear Joy, Your suggestions are good. My own advice is not to put all your information retrievals from one source as factual. Quite often companies are biased by what they say and what they do not say. It is like being well read. The more sources you visit the more confidence you will find the right answers.