DNA

Discover how DNA testing can unlock your family history

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) composing the 'Missa Solemnis', February-April 1820. Oil painting by August Klober. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

DNA testing finds Ludwig van Beethoven ‘wasn’t really a Beethoven’

Scientist analysing the results of an autosomal DNA test

Autosomal DNA, Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA tests: what’s the difference?

DNA Painter

DNA Painter: What is it and what are its key features?

DNA test kits face on

The best DNA test kits for 2023

FamilyTreeDNA review

FamilyTreeDNA review

MyHeritage DNA

Use MyHeritage DNA to get more from your DNA test

A crowd of children waving union jacks as Queen Mary, wife of King George V, visits Brixton in south London to open the new Lambeth Town Hall, 14th October 1938 DNA ethnicity

How can DNA tests determine ethnicity?

STR and SNP DNA

What is STR and SNP DNA?

DNA family history

Getting started

The best websites for DNA family history research

DNA Family Secrets

Your chance to be on DNA Family Secrets

14th October 1932: Members of a children's games club for under-sevens playing 'blind man's bluff' in Hyde Park, London. DNA testing can be used to find your distant relatives

How to use a DNA test to find your distant relatives

East End children, London, c1900.

How a DNA test revealed my Jewish ancestry

Y-DNA

What is Y-DNA?

LivingDNA

LivingDNA review

Turi King DNA Family Secrets

“You really feel the enormity of what you’re doing”: Professor Turi King on ‘DNA Family Secrets’