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AncestryDNA: Genetic Ethnicity Test

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Discover your DNA story with our easy-to-use kit. Simply send in your saliva sample to our lab in the prepaid package, and your report will be ready in around 6-8 weeks. Detailed instructions are included.
AncestryDNA is the #1 selling consumer DNA test.* From your origins in over 1000 regions, to the most connections to living relatives, no other DNA test delivers such a unique, interactive experience.
Our new DNA experience gives you a more precise ethnicity estimate with greater geographic detail and in-depth historical insights.
Combine what you learn from your DNA with an Ancestry Subscription, for access to millions of family trees and billions of records, for even more insight into your genealogy and origins.
*Substantiated by AncestryDNA, January 2019 report.

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The DNA test that tells a more complete story of you.

Location and Detail Feature

You can see more specific breakdowns of places in your DNA, helping to pinpoint where your ancestors might have lived. Depending on your regions, you could also get a timeline of historical changes with expert-curated content, giving you context about the events that shaped the lives of your ancestors over time.

Ancestral Movements

Uniquely powered by our cutting-edge science, our data can show the paths of your ancestors as they moved around the world to learn who they were, what they did, and the events that caused them to move from place to place.

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We've redesigned the DNA Match experience to help you make more discoveries, faster. Now use color coding, custom labeling, and other innovative tools to see your DNA connections in the clearest light possible.

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When you link your family tree to your DNA results, new chapters of your family story may suddenly be revealed. You might find out how your DNA Matches fit into your family tree, and learn new details about the ancestors who likely connect you.

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	AncestryDNA: Genetic Ethnicity Test	AncestryDNA: Genetic Ethnicity + Traits Test	AncestryHealth Core: Health + Genetic Ethnicity Test
Ethnicity Estimate	✓	✓	✓
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26 Personal Traits		✓	Only Nutrition and Wellness Traits Included
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Printable report to take to your healthcare provider			✓

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Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 5.5 x 1.7 inches ; 1 pounds
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Customer Reviews: 6,527 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,156 in Health & Household (See Top 100 in Health & Household)
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Don H

DO NOT PURCHASE THIS IF YOU ARE ASIAN

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018

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I'm Korean, but I wanted to further understand my ethic background. I was curious if I have South Asian genes or ancestors from other East Asian countries.

But the test result only says I'm "100% Asian." One giant yellow pie chart just saying I'm just "Asian", nothing else. So, I paid 80 bucks to find out I'm Asian.

AncestryDNA only 4 Asian regions (Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Guam/Philippines), whereas they have more than 100 European regions.

Is this some sort of sick joke? I understand that the company may have way fewer Asian samples. But then, they should've notified customers that they can't track Asian people's ancestry at all.

Don't waste your money on this, if you are Asian.

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Mrs Betty Turner

some advantages over other testing companies

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017

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I've done DNA testing with all of the major companies now. And I've been at this DNA stuff for almost 15 years now.

* I found the ethnicity estimate to be just about equal to everyone else. You can get more detail running your own models via gedmatch but for the curious or beginner, this is the easy result. If you just want to know whether you need a kilt or lederhosen or green beer for the next holiday seasons then this works as well, with many particular limitations, as any of the others.
* There's no medical interpretation - most don't anymore. You can get good medical results running your raw download through Promethease for a few bucks. If you want to know medical propensities then Ancestry won't help much on its own.
* The relationship calculations are pretty accurate and the database is huge. Compared to my other tests, this one returned far more and much closer connections. If you're looking for birth parents and such, this is the place to start. Just remember that the calculator is an estimate and other possibilities exist.

- The sampling process was simple "spit in a tube, mail it in" - I much prefer cheek swabs but this gets the job done.
- Time was super fast for me - 4 weeks from mail-in. I have a test out with one company that is nearing 3 months to process.
- The user interface is pretty simple for newbies but doesn't offer much in the way of analysis tools for those who have DNA experience. Gedmatch can makeup for the shortfall in analysis tools if you can get your matches to upload there.
- The ease of creating an attached tree makes for some particularly easy genealogical research to confirm/refute family connections.
- The ease of creating an attached tree makes for some particularly prevalent errors in family trees.
- yDNA and mtDNA predictive markers are hidden in these results if you want to make an effort to dig them out.
- The marketing of this tester has created a large database of folks who were only interested in ethnicity and admixture estimates who have no interest in and won't reply to genealogy queries. Many haven't logged back in since they got their results back.

There seem to be a lot of customers who forgot that molecular biology, human origins and migrations geography, and world history weren't their best subjects in school and were expecting this to return an easy result to "grasp it all" in a few minutes. The more you want to dig, the more complex the understanding will become. "DNA for Dummies" is a master's degree - "All You Ever Wanted to Know..." is a PhD. If you get hung up on needing to understand it all in a few short hours then you're going to get very frustrated. Take it in a little at a time.

Having spent many $1000's on this hobby over the years, I'm very pleased with this $70 investment into understanding who I am and where I came from. Your mileage may vary.

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Tom

AncestryDNA is not for East Asians.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

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My ancestors were from Korea. One of our daughters submitted her saliva to the 23 and me and discovered that she had Korean, Chinese and Japanese genes which wasn't surprising. Mine from the AncestryDNA, however, declared that I am 100% East Asian with a huge circled region encompassing Siberia to the north, Japan to the east, Indonesia to the south, and Bangladesh to the west. The map is attached. What a waste of money and effort! The Ancestry DNA should have a big warning that their test isn't for East Asians.

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Lisa Akers

my family is so sad that he never had the opportunity to learn his ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2017

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Ordered two kits for my parents last year; they were so excited to learn their ancestry. They followed the instructions accordingly, and mailed in with the prepaid boxes. A year later, still no results and it's impossible to contact the company. This past August my father passed away and I am beyond furious that we will never know his results. More importantly, my family is so sad that he never had the opportunity to learn his results. He truly looked forward to learning. Total waste of time and money.

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Grannaof5

DON'T BUY THIS>>>>>>>>>

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2017

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RIPOFF - after finally getting the email results on this test I purchased for my daughter, I am very disappointed. There is nothing specific except the percentages of her heritage. Then they want you to purchase a membership to see anything else. Also the results are not printable - you can just read it once and you are done. DON"T INVEST IN THIS!!!!! if you really want any information about your genetics. I would give this zero stars if possible. For $79.00 I expected more genetic information, not having to spend up to $199.00 for six months of access to their website. The TV ads are bogus, very misleading. I wish I had read the reviews before ordering this and I would not have wasted my $$$.

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K. McDermott

Helped Me Find My Sister!

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2017

I HIGHLY recommend this!!! Being adopted, I've always been curious about my background and AncestryDNA helped me figure it out easily! However, the best feature in my opinion is that they then provide with information about potential family members. Because of this feature, I was finally able to connect with my biological sister after 25 years of dreaming about doing so! That right there means that I will forever say that AncestryDNA is worth every single penny and definitely earns and deserves 5 stars!!!

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Heiner

Waste of money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2018

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I am not sure how Ancestry get their results. Mine is 49% British and 49% German. This means one of my parents must have been British and the other German. I moved to the UK 15 years ago. But both my parents where German as where my 4 grandparents and my 8 great-grandparents. It seems to me they have rolled the dice and assumed that if you send a sample from the UK you must have British ancestry. No science behind it at all. I could have gone to the oracle at the fun fair.

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TLA6511

Scam, plain and simple.

Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2018

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Can I rate 0 stars? I am very disappointed in this. Unfortunately I did not do my research as I usually do. I bought it for my mother for Christmas. All this is, is a way to fish you into paying their $30/m membership fee. The information my mother got mentioned so many countries, none of which were England or France, which we know cover at least 4 or 5 generations back. The information given was so vague. My mother wrote them to complain (which is not normal for her to be so assertive but she was so disappointed) and they did not respond to her email. Caveat emptor.

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Tokyo Sandblaster

Waste of money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2019

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Ancestry tests don't give anywhere near the amount of information that their main competitor's does. You only get a very conservative ethnicity mix that is very recent. Their "migrations" info is complete BS and is only a random guess that "white people moved to North America in the last couple hundred years"...really? Shocker.
No health information and no detailed information.....unless.....YOU PAY FOR AN ANCESTRY SUBSCRIPTION.

Of course. Don't waste your money. Get a 23andMe test with soooooooo much more information and a lot more family connections. They aren't perfect either but much more worth the money spent.

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Vocalistuk

Mixed review

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2019

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I decided to take the plunge and purchased an AncestryDNA test before Christmas when it was on special offer with free delivery at only £40. When you consider that what you receive in the Kit is a plastic tube with a bit of blue liquid and en envelope to send it back to them, I am glad I did not pay more as these tests are still in the 'baby' fazes of DNA testing and subsequent discussions with people who are experts in the field have discovered that Ancestry is at the bottom of the rung. Of course the test is done in a Lab and people have to be paid, but the standard fee of £80 + shipping is way overpriced.

I sadly have to agree as after the results appeared in my Ancestry account I was very disappointed to see that they failed to disclose any sign of my Italian heritage at all and even clicking through the Engilsh ethnic breakdown showed absolutely NO connection to any place whatsoever so apparently I am an alien who was dropped here from outer space so I could not recommend this as a service that produces a valid ethnic breakdown at all. Their results graph and click through breakdown are extremely limited, especially after comparing them with other services so from the ethnicity perspective, think they are bordering on false advertising!!

Even the cousin matches seem to be based on the surnames listed in your tree with no attempt at comparing the people between trees to see if there is actually anyone in common! I have managed to find a few actual matches in the cousin match list, no thanks to their matching service, but more to the fact that I have been researching my tree for many years and am fortunate to know someone who is very competent at DNA and family tree research to help me weed out the rubbish from the genuine matches.

Thankfully there are two saving graces with this service:
1. They have a big database to which to compare with

2. You can download the raw DNA file and upload it to services with far superior ethnic breakdown and better graphs

Uploading my Raw AncestryDNA file to the free GedMatch service, immediately displayed my known Italian, Scottish, Welsh and English heritage along with French that I had been hoping to find to confirm a verbal family history plus Irish, German and Swedish which were a pleasant surprise that I will enjoy trying to discover which branch of the tree they belong to! I have also uploaded the DNA file to other free services, MyHeritage that also shows the Mediterranean connection along with LivingDNA whose results I am still waiting for. All these services also include cousin matches who share dna so you end up with a much bigger pool of possible matches than Ancestry alone.

Also on the plus side, you can also upload the file to sites that produce pure health related results from your DNA with Promethese (paid) and CodeGen (free) or Genomelink and learn how your DNA shapes your nutrition, fitness, personality and intelligence traits.

On the down side, Ancestry keeps changing it's build format so that some free services are unable to process their Raw DNA file and do not include the facility to upload Raw DNA files provided and processed by the services named above.

So from that perspective, if DNA testing for fun and to find potential cousin matches is something you are considering, then wait for when they have a cheap special offer available. If you want a proper ethnic breakdown, either use the raw DNA file and upload it elsewhere or use one of the more accurate providers. Note they only do autosumnal DNA testing and NOT Y-DNA testing so you will need to use another service for that.

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Sajjid

Useless for people of South Asian descent, and poor customer service.

Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2019

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Ancestry has such limited information about genetics from South Asian people that it lumps these following countries together: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka (and others) all together.

This is over 20% of the worlds population!!!!!

Anybody who knows this region can attest to how different these peoples are. I get it, this field is still under development. But if they can take the time and effort to differentiate between German and French people, the same can be done for South Asia. The point is, don't waste your money on this test if you are from here until they refine their databases.

Also I complained to their "support" email on this very issue, and no one has bothered to respond - so poor customer service as well.

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Amazon Customer

Its a Scam - DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2019

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So I get my DNA result and it has even less information than what my address can tell about me. They say they don't have have much information on the area am from. But that's not something they tell you when you buy. Furthermore half the information is incorrect. Called customer services and the answer is - Sorry you feel that way, nothing we can do. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY HERE. MIGHT AS WELL BURN IT!!!

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Audrey

Confirmed ancestry not indicated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2019

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pretty generic replies. I bought it for my father who is definitely a Welsh descendant (this has been proven) yet they simply stated that he is mainly sicilian (probably because we live in Malta and it's close by). not impressed at all.

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Lisa

You gotta try it

Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2018

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Just want I wanted. Thank you. Found my biological father and brother

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Catriona McIntosh

Worthwhile

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2018

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Impressed with this, the new update matches very accurately with my tree records, down to specific towns. No exciting surprises for me as I already had all our records, this just confirmed them, and my DNA matches were all people I expected.

My husband had a less full tree so his results were more exciting, and the DNA matches helped him find the person he was looking for and fill in the missing information.

Definitely worth the money when it’s on offer, especially for those who are adopted, or don’t know the identity of a father/grandfather etc.

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not a si ole as they say

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2019

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If you haven't got a computer PHD don't buy this kit, just register on line and its that simple, it isn't.A lot of money, a lot of hassle and just not worth the effort

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joanna

No for me

Reviewed in Canada on May 19, 2019

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I originally bought these on sale and was so excited to do this testing but when reading all the fine print and other articles after the boxes arrived I realized this product isn't for me. As much as I really want to know the genetic make up of my DNA and my hubby as well ... if you're the type who is concerned about long term systems / institutions having persona data on you - this isn't for you. It's not for me, in the long run once they have done their analysis they can store that information about you and do whatever they want with it later. Just like in the old days with your telephone number, your information can get sold later on to whatever means. I don't like the idea of that! In addition realize these DNA tests, there's a lot more these companies can learn about you that they don't have to publish to you. This kit is only meant to tell you your ancestry but it actually tells them everything about you beyond your ancestry and health. Considering all the genetic experimenting happening around the world, I do not want my data being used some place else in a simulation or potentially being targeted / marked for future stats. Yes I sound conspiracy theory like but bottom line you're giving up more detailed data than they are advertising to take from you.

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Amateur Reader

Highly disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2019

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Being from a mixed backgroup, I was very curious about learning about my ancestry, origins and ethnicity. In an effort to pinpoint all this I cross-referenced and compared between companies by taking the tests of all the ancestry companies out there (23andme, MyHeritage, FTD, Geneplaza, 24genetics etc.) and I have spend a hefty amount of money. Something I do not regret.

As a result, I believe that I have the appropriate experience to say that the test provided by AncestryDNA, despite its higher price point versus its competitors, appears to be the one test with the lowest accuracy, poorest presentation and poorest database for relatives. Since this company, like 23andme, tries to match your origins and mix of genes with that of other reference populations, they also failed to even spot mine or match me at all with other reference populations in their database.

The only utility provided by this company is that you are able to upload your raw DNA to other companies in an effort to find out more about your ancestry though even their raw DNA data seems to be less accurate than those of other companies.

On a final note, ancestry companies improve their algorithms constantly and things could improve in the future, but I'd suggest that you skip this one for now!

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Disappointing if you've done research

Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2019

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I guess it's cool when you have no clue where you are from but when you've done a minimum of research on your family and order this because you want to know more, it's extremely disappointing.

The regions are so large and include so many countries you almost have to know where your family is from to make sense of it. For example, I'm sure I have Dutch ancestry, because my name is Dutch, but this group was included in the same as people from the UK. That's how huge the regions are. I guess I can understand that the genetic variations among those people are limited but I can't believe they can't pinpoint your roots to a more exact region.

Also, it's a bit crappy that even after you have paid this much to order this kit that you can't access more documentation about your family and you need to pay even more to subscribe.

In summary, if you have no clue about your family, go ahead and have fun but if you've done some research beforehand, it's not really worth it.

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curt

Dont expect specifics

Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2018

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Results are quite vague, once you get your results you end up with dozens of “discount offers” to find out more info. If you have a general Idea on your Lineage and are hoping for more specifics, I do not recommend this product. I already knew my background is predominently Welsh & Irish and was hoping for some regional specifics. Regions are bunched together.
Examples being: Welsh/southern England/western europe & Irish/scottish/Celtic.
Far too broad if you ask me.

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Rick Dahl

Great gift!

Reviewed in Canada on August 6, 2018

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Bought this kit for my girlfriend for her birthday. She sent in her sample and received regular updates about what was happening and where the sample was in the process. This only heightened the anticipation when she got it back 3 weeks later. It was fun to see the results and made for some tough questions for her parents! Was a great gift and am now thinking I will do it myself..

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