What is the DNA Story on Ancestry DNA?
Want to learn more about your DNA Story on Ancestry DNA? Learn how each part of your DNA Story works together to help you learn about your family’s origins.
Ethnicity
How Does DNA Show Your Ethnicity?
Want to know how DNA shows your ethnicity? Read to learn how they find your ethnicity estimate from your DNA, as well as more about ethnicity estimates.
What is the Ivory Coast Ghana region on Ancestry DNA?
Got the Ivory Coast Ghana region on Ancestry DNA? Learn more about how you might have inherited the region, and how to trace your Ivory Coast Ghana ancestry.
How to Find Out Which Ancestry You Inherited From a Great-grandparent
There is a way to determine which ethnicity regions you inherited from your grandparents or even great-great grandparents. I’ll teach you how to do it.
Is 1% of an Ethnicity Region Always Just Noise?
Did you get 1% of an unexpected region in your DNA results? Maybe your ethnicity estimate shows 1% Irish, 1% European Jewish, 1% Bantu, or 1% North African DNA. You might be tempted to brush off these “trace” amounts of DNA from a particular region as statistical noise, but should you? In this post, I …
Are You Confused About Germanic Europe DNA?
Were you surprised about Germanic Europe DNA in your results? Learn about this DNA region, including whether German is the same as Germanic, and more!
What is the France DNA Ethnicity on Ancestry?
Did you get the France DNA ethnicity on Ancestry? If you live in the U.S., you can count yourself as one of the more than 10.4 million Americans who have known French ancestry. In this post, I’ll explain more about this DNA ethnicity, including: Where the France DNA ethnicity is located How France got its …
How to Get an Ethnicity Estimate
Wondering how to get an ethnicity estimate test? Perhaps you’ve seen DNA results from others and you’d like to get them for yourself. Learn more here!
What is the Native American—North, Central, South DNA Ethnicity on Ancestry?
If you got your DNA results and saw that you have Native American DNA from the North, Central, South region on Ancestry, you are among the hundreds of millions of people who can trace their ancestry back to the indigenous peoples of North and South America. This is an amazing legacy. In this post, I …
What is the Sweden and Denmark DNA Ethnicity on Ancestry?
Did you get the Sweden DNA region on Ancestry? More than 4.5 million people in Canada and the United States have known Swedish roots, and even more have Swedish ancestry that they are just beginning to discover. In this post, I’ll discuss the most common questions related to the Swedish DNA region on Ancestry. Where …