Welcome to the DNA-NEWBIE list brought to you by The International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)!

ISOGG's mission is to further the education and promotion of using DNA for genealogy. To assist with meeting this goal, and as suggested by Ann Turner, we founded the DNA-NEWBIE mailing list in 2005 for those new (hence the term, "newbies") to using DNA for genealogy. You need to be an ISOGG member to subscribe to this mailing list.

As a subscriber to the DNA-NEWBIE list, we ask you to adhere to the following rules:

1. Please keep discussion topics & queries relevant to GENETIC-GENEALOGY uses of DNA testing. MEDICAL & FORENSIC DNA, politics and religion are all off-topic for this list. For anthro-genealogy/deep ancestry queries, or detailed test results analysis, we may refer your post to Rootsweb's GENEALOGY-DNA list where many anthro-genealogy experts answer questions about haplogroup origins and SNP results.

2. List moderators may e-mail you a gentle reminder in case of "topic drift" (i.e.: politics, religion, etc.) if subjects do not pertain to our list topic.

3. When replying to messages, please conserve space by trimming the text out of the message to which you are replying.

4. Rude and/or negative comments are NOT allowed on this list! The rule here is: "If you can't say something nice, don't say it at all." We reserve the right to moderate and/or remove negative posters and postings.

5. Discussion of products and prices IS ALLOWED for items relevant to genetic-genealogy. This does not include ads for computers, computer classes, etc. Anyone posting a product or service that does not relate directly to genetic-genealogy will be considered a Spammer and BANNED!

6. Please address concerns & questions regarding the list to the List Moderators.

Please visit DNA-NEWBIE menu for helpful beginner's info: http://www.isogg.org/newbiemenu.htm & browse this group's "Links" section.