DNA

Discover how DNA testing can unlock your family history

Y-DNA

What is Y-DNA?

FamilyTreeDNA review

FamilyTreeDNA review

LivingDNA

LivingDNA review

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?

Turi King DNA Family Secrets

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

DNA family history

Getting started

The best websites for DNA family history research

Ancestry SideView

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

STR and SNP DNA

What is STR and SNP DNA?

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

Family history researchers could help police unlock 1981 cold case mystery

MyHeritage DNA

Use MyHeritage DNA to get more from your DNA test

Portrait of Robert the Bruce

Genetic marker discovered for descendants of Bruce clan

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

Scientist analysing the results of an autosomal DNA test

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