DNA

Discover how DNA testing can unlock your family history

STR and SNP DNA

What is STR and SNP DNA?

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

Scientist analysing the results of an autosomal DNA test

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

Y-DNA

What is Y-DNA?

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?

DNA family history

Getting started

The best websites for DNA family history research

The Declaration of Arbroath

DNA and the Declaration of Arbroath

This old family photograph from 1909 shows William Williams, seated left, at the wedding of his daughter Harriet

Eureka moment I found my mystery ancestor through DNA links

AncestryDNA ethnicity results

DNA Do my DNA results mean I have Italian ancestors?

East End children, London, c1900.

How a DNA test revealed my Jewish ancestry

Black and white photograph of children in Cable Street, London. DNA testing can help you find your family history

Choosing your DNA test: The best DNA testing kits