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!

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 ethnicity …

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.

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.

The "AncestryDNA 101" video sets the stage for a comprehensive introduction to DNA testing and its implications for family history research.

AncestryDNA uses an autosomal DNA test that surveys a person’s entire genome at over 700,000 locations. It covers both the maternal and paternal sides of the family tree.

What is Genetic Testing? A genetic test (or DNA test) for family history purposes is designed to look for variations in peoples’ DNA that can tell us something about them. For example, genetic testing can …

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 a …

AncestryDNA ® provides a list of DNA matches (people who are genetically related to the test taker) and an estimate of one’s ancestral origins. We survey one’s DNA at hundreds of thousands of locations …