DNA

Discover how DNA testing can unlock your family history

Scientist analysing the results of an autosomal DNA test

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

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 test kits face on

The best DNA test kits for 2022

DNA Family Secrets

Your chance to be on DNA Family Secrets

DNA Painter

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

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?

FamilyTreeDNA review

FamilyTreeDNA review

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’

Ancestry SideView

Ancestry introduces new DNA tool that reveals the DNA you inherited from each parent

Adam Harland at the scene where the woman's body was found

Family history researchers could help police unlock 1981 cold case mystery