Mtdna ‘ugly duckling’ of dna testing

DNA has a language of its own, one you may be unfamiliar with, but it’s worth getting to grips with it to help you make use of genetics in your genealogy. I have included only those words that crop up

Perhaps, if you are over a certain age, you remember the Monty Python sketch that included the catchphrase ‘Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!’ The same could be said for your DNA results. Most p

“I remember singing it in the playground in ...

Did you know? There are more than 15 billion public member trees on Ancestry. It can be very helpful to search the public family trees of other Ancestry members (to do so, go to Search / Public Member

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

Sitting on the sofa next to my dad as he tapped away on Ancestry, I was instantly drawn to the mass of names, dates and places. The colourful graphics caught my eye and I couldn’t possibly resist. I a