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!

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

The three most common types of DNA test options are Y-DNA testing, mitochondrial DNA testing (mtDNA testing), and autosomal DNA testing. Each type of the three DNA testing options look at …

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 …

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.

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.

When Ancestry scientists analyze your DNA sample in our lab, we look at hundreds of thousands of DNA positions, or markers in your sample and compare them to similar patterns in our reference panel.

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 …

Discover your unique DNA story. Compare DNA tests from Ancestry.