Many of you have requested a more detailed overview on your DNA results.  Included in our latest release, is an easy-to-use and understand step-by-step guide to your DNA results.  It is intended to be the first thing you view even prior to your lab results.  This guide walks you through each page of the website and describes how to contact and collaborate with potential matches; view and print a full multi-page explanatory report of your results; discover fun facts about your fellow ancient ancestral “cousins;” attach DNA results to your online family tree; view, join, and/or request membership into a DNA Group; and obtain results of someone for whom you have purchased testing.  This guide is a great way to get started with your DNA genealogy journey.

The Guide includes a page-by-page explanation describing:

• Welcome page — an initial navigation to your online data access
• Matches map — Where in the world are the participants with whom you may match located?  Note:  this information is extracted from the purchaser’s postal code data.   Learn about the slider and hone in on closer matches.
• Match table — another view of your matches in a tabular format listing each of the possibilities no matter how close or distant they lie.  Here in the connection point, learn about what an MRCA designation is and how to use it in interpreting your matches. 
• Ancestry — Meet your people and discover your ancient ancestral origins and migratory route. 
• Your scientific DNA results — the official report from the laboratory.
• DNA Groups — Join the crowd and become a part of the many DNA Groups.  Browse the DNA Groups Directory, join a group or start one of your own. 

“A Guide to your Ancestry.com DNA Test Results” can be found after logging into Ancestry.com DNA on right hand side of the View Console page.  It is available in a PDF format, so you can view it on your computer or email or print as needed.  Just click the VIEW button to get started on your journey.