News from the Genealogy industry, including the DNA testing sites and the genealogical research sites.
Ancient DNA research has rewritten what we know about European population history — and the findings are directly relevant to anyone researching central European ancestry. The “German” in your DNA arrived from Anatolia 7,000 years ago, from the Russian steppe 5,000 years ago, and from Paleolithic Europe before that. Understanding this changes how you read your ethnicity results.
The upgrade path FamilyTreeDNA said it didn’t have yet now exists — $29, most testers need no new sample, but the switch is permanent and irreversible.
FamilyTreeDNA’s autosomal upload feature has been paused for months — not a glitch, but the edge of a much bigger shift in how the company reads your DNA.
Ethnicity estimates look precise and authoritative. They are neither. Understanding what the percentages actually represent — and what they cannot tell you about your documented ancestors — is one of the most useful things a genealogical DNA tester can learn.
FamilyTreeDNA is the oldest consumer DNA testing company still operating under original ownership, and the only major platform offering all three test types: autosomal, Y-DNA, and mitochondrial. For Dillman researchers, its Y-DNA project infrastructure is unmatched anywhere else.
If you have taken an AncestryDNA test and linked it to a family tree, you have almost certainly encountered ThruLines — Ancestry’s tool for suggesting how your DNA matches might connect…
Ask a room full of genealogists who owns their family tree, and you will get a range of confident answers — most of them incomplete. The question touches copyright law…
There has never been a better time to be a genealogical researcher. That statement has been true for most of the past two decades, and it remains true in 2026…
For most of the twentieth century, the Family History Center was the gateway to genealogical research. Operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
Few stories in the genealogy industry have been as dramatic, or as consequential for ordinary researchers, as the collapse and reinvention of 23andMe…
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