Personally, DNA analysis is pretty interesting and is easy to get into right now, even if we are still at the cusp of a $1000 genome sequence. I've used FTDNA and once you have your results you can follow real work pertaining to your own ancestral group. There is a lot of activity on dna-forums.org and it really shows how much history one does not know when reading some of the discussions. I encourage more people to get into it to increase the pool of results available.
