This service combines advanced DNA science with the world's largest online family history resource to identify your genetic origins and help you find new family connections.

Learn how DNA testing works and what goes on behind the scenes as we transform your DNA into your ethnicity estimate, ancestor migrations, and DNA matches!

AncestryDNA testing can help you learn where your distant ancestors were from as well as who your family is today. And no matter where it leads, it’s a story you’ve always carried with you.

Unlike Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA tests, AncestryDNA provides matches on both sides of your family. A Y-chromosome DNA test finds only the father-to-son path in a family tree, and …

How secure and private is AncestryDNA? Why would I take the AncestryDNA test? What will my results tell me? How do I take the test? Want to find out more about our next generation of …

Ancestry has provided the following table to help you decide which product will supply the information you’re looking for most.

We test the DNA collected in a person’s saliva sample, which contains cells from multiple sources, often including blood cells created by bone marrow or stem cells. If you’ve received a …

The person who purchases a test does not need to be the person who takes it. You can have a kit sent to you and give it to someone else, or send it straight to someone else.

Before you pick a DNA test kit, read about test types, privacy, and what the test involves. DNA test results from Ancestry® can help with genealogy research.

Sep 21, 2023 · So you want to take an ancestry DNA test to gain a more complete story of your genetic makeup. Here's a 5-point primer that maps out facts you need to know.