Considering DNA?

If you are considering DNA but really feel you lack some knowledge in this area The Family History Guide just added an 8th Project called DNA..  www.thefhguide.com  I have looked through the goals and it looks like there is a lot of pertinient infromation regarding this chance to find out more about your origins.  Here is an excerpt from the first article in the new goals section of the DNA Project.

"By the 1980s it had been established that DNA could be used very effectively for identification purposes, leading to widespread use in the fields of forensics and criminology. Only very small samples were needed, with sources varying from a body to traces left by a body, in what is referred to as “genetic fingerprints.” DNA paternal testing soon followed, effectively proving paternity far past the limits of earlier blood tests. A major achievement occurred in the early 1990s, with the exhumation and identification by DNA testing of the remains of members of the royal Romanoff family of Russia.

First public attention was brought to potential use of DNA as a genealogical tool in the late 1990s. Of special significance were efforts to determine if Thomas Jefferson was the father of some or all of slave Sally Hemmings' children."  

The Family History Guide supplies many answers to our 
questions in Family History in one convenient place  Check out Project #8 DNA.