Great New Zealand Family History events coming up this August! Auckland Christchurch Date: 11th August – 13th August Read More
Vale Ellen aka. ‘The Queen’ – Aged 106 In my role as Head of Content & Community, I often have the privilege of hearing powerful, emotional stories from our family history community. Ancestry can help to unlock some incredible discoveries and although there’s no limit to the stories that could be shared, occasionally there is Read More
SideView™ Now Groups Your AncestryDNAⓇ Matches By Parent Making It Easier To Determine How You Relate To Your Matches Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, unveiled SideView™ technology this year–a first-of-its-kind scientific innovation that gives AncestryDNA® customers new insights into which side of the family they inherited their genetics from. Read More
AncestryDNA® has expanded into 54 new markets AncestryDNA is now available to consumers in 89 countries and territories on five continents. This expansion more than doubles the number of markets where people can access AncestryDNA, enabling millions more people to find and connect with family. Ancestry’s simple, step-by-step DNA test reveals an individual’s unique ethnic Read More
AncestryDNA® has updated its ethnicity estimate reference panel so customers will now have the ability to see a possible genetic connection with the Indigenous communities of Australia. Prior to this update, customers who have genetic markers in their DNA that Ancestry’s analysis associates with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander DNA would have received an ethnicity Read More
This month, Ancestry launched 73 new and updated AncestryDNA communities for the UK as part of a global release of over 225 new regions. This is an exciting next step in the journey we are taking with our customers, as we continue to discover more about how our DNA can add to our knowledge and Read More
Richard Dutkiewicz had always wondered about his father. He’d never known him – his mother had said he was killed in action in the Pacific at the end of World War II. “I was born in Germany in 1946,” explains Richard, who now lives in Canberra. “My mother was German, my father an American marine Read More
When we launched Ancestry’s detailed genetic regions in March last year, we knew it was a major step in the journey for us to empower customer journeys of self-discovery. Back then, we were proud to have the granularity in our database to be able to detect 13 distinct genetic regions in Ireland, helping tell the Read More