Ancient Ancestry Finder™ – FREE best guess at your ancient origins.


Now members and visitors to Ancestry.com DNA can take a quick and fun quiz to discover our prediction of your ancient ancestors.  Post your results on Facebook or Twitter and share with friends.  It’s all free!

Ancient Ancestry Finder™ predicts likely ancestry for both your maternal and your paternal lines.  So, if you’ve only taken one of our tests try it out and see what our best guess is for the test you haven’t taken.aa-finder

 We’ve offered ancient ancestry information as part of our results package for several years.  If you’ve taken a test, you’ve received a haplogroup designation and name (like The Ice Immigrants or The Stonemasons).  Your results include a short, basic story describing the lives of your likely ancestors.  In addition to connections that can help grow your family tree, we give you a bigger picture to let you imagine what your earliest people were doing back when humanity was just getting started.

To give everyone a sampling of these results, with Finder™ we’ve built a simple experience that takes a best guess at describing your ancient ancestors.   You answer 2 or 3 questions with the most basic info about your family (facts almost everyone knows).  And then we provide a few options for likely ancient ancestral groups, along with descriptions of those groups.  The only way to narrow down those options to the most likely result is by taking an Ancestry.com DNA test.

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The spirit of Finder™ is a bit different from what you may have experienced on our site.  It’s part of our effort to introduce ancestry and genealogy to a wider audience.  And the more people who become interested in Ancestry.com DNA and genealogy, the larger our database becomes.  And that benefits us all.

Check it out here!

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Written by:
David
Posted on:
June 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm

This feature is very close to what I’d like to see. I’d written about this a few weeks ago.

http://bit.ly/ebLf3

Searching by DNA Haplotypes in Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker

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July 1, 2009 at 3:46 pm

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Written by:
Karen
Posted on:
July 1, 2009 at 5:29 pm

I think this free quiz is a good idea and it adds some fun to the site. Besides advertising DNA testing it helps people researching other lines such as maternal Grandfather to have an idea of where the line came from if no one is left to take a DNA test.

The country selection in the quiz needs some improvement. Especially when clicking on England it favoureds naming republic of Ireland or Netherlands as the selected country, on either side of England!

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Written by:
SB Tuscarora Tribalchair Marilyn Mejorado
Posted on:
July 5, 2009 at 2:09 am

I have worked for nearly 20 years giving free ancestry information out, to Ancestry.com, usgenweb.com, and rootsweb.com now you charge others and try to charge me for the services we provided you free.

Stop charging or using my personal or Tribal information provided in your databases or we will sue you for distributing and selling it without compensating us from your profits you are making off our genealogy.

Even in an electronic format I still submitted it, and you never ask my permission to both use it for profit, nor to redistribute it publically.

Marilyn Mejorado
Southern Band Tuscarora Tribal chair/office manager
http://www.southernbandtuscarora.com
http://www.Dreamwalkersarts.com

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Written by:
Wendy Jessen, Ancestry.com
Posted on:
July 6, 2009 at 6:07 pm

Thanks for your comment, Marilyn. Your feedback is important to us. To ensure we address your concerns, someone from our team will be contacting you offline.

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Written by:
Maryann
Posted on:
July 7, 2009 at 5:14 pm

I just received the results of my 33 marker test. I had the test run after my FTDNA test to double check the results. The markers that Ancestry uses doesn’t match up completely with FTDNA so it is hard to crosscheck, but one marker is off completely. How can I verify the results? Ancestry has Y-GATA-H4.1 on allele 22. FTNDA has GATAH4 on allele 11. Are they the same locus?

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Written by:
Wendy Jessen, Ancestry.com
Posted on:
July 7, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Maryann, the locus in question has been debated by the forensic and genealogical communities. Ancestry.com DNA follows the “TAGA” motif as presented by Butler et. al. Forensic Sci. Intl. 129: 10-24 for Y-GATA-H4. For a full listing of the markers tested, click here.

A comprehensive page which provides conversion information across the industry can be found here. It is a good resource to consult when comparing data from various groups.

Specific questions about your results or data, should be directed to our client services team at dna@ancestry.com.

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Written by:
Linda
Posted on:
July 9, 2009 at 5:20 am

I took the test on-line and it was interesting, but too general….so, I want to have my father tested (he’s 90!)…If I do the male chromosone test now, would I be able to use his sample later for the mtDNA test (I can’t afford both right now).

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Written by:
arlene
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July 9, 2009 at 12:44 pm

How do you read my emails. Five minutes ago I wrote to my cousin about doing a family tree and your site pops up on my email. I do believe that is against the law. In any case, I want to know how you see it.

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Written by:
Wendy Jessen, Ancestry.com
Posted on:
July 10, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Linda, in most cases the initial DNA sample will be sufficient for additional future upgraded testing.

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Written by:
Wendy Jessen, Ancestry.com
Posted on:
July 10, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Arlene, your feedback is important to us. To ensure we understand your
concerns, someone from our team will contact you offline.

Ancestry.com DNA provides an email connection service for users to contact and collaborate with potential matches. Email addresses are not displayed by Ancestry.com.

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Written by:
Deborah
Posted on:
July 11, 2009 at 10:38 am

Arlene, if you are using a web based email like yahoo or hotmail,they put cookies on your computer in order to use keywords to send you advertisements designed to match whatever pages you search for or other places. That’s also why you need to have anti-spyware on your computer security programs in your computer like Norton Anti-virus, anti-spamware, anti-spyware.

More than likely it didn’t have anything to do with Ancestry.com reading your emails. It’s probably an electronic keyword program linked to your email program you use.