Last updated: January 13, 2025 Sorting your DNA matches by places—their current locations and/or your shared ancestral locations—may help you find DNA answers! Learn how to sort DNA matches by place at AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and 23andMe. Have...
“A mystery DNA match messaged me! What do I do now?” Read this great advice on responding to unexpected DNA connections such as unknown birth relatives, written by genetic counselor Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams. Sometimes DNA testing leads to unexpected connections,...
Y-DNA isn’t quite a “paternity test,” but can help you solve paternity mysteries, including those for your male ancestors! Here’s how one man used YDNA to help identify an ancestor’s birth father. Thanks to Bob Land for writing this story about how Y-DNA helped him...
DNA testing privacy concerns at AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FTDNA, MyHeritage, Living DNA and GEDmatch are real. Here’s what’s at stake and how each company handles your genetic data. Are you worried about DNA testing and privacy considerations? You’re not alone. Here, we...
In this CRI Genetics review, we measure their DNA test against the two things a consumer DNA test for family history should provide: ethnicity reports and DNA matches. This is how CRI Genetics stacks up. We here at Your DNA Guide help thousands of people around the...
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