FamilyTreeDNA Blog

A Group Project is a collaborative effort to address genealogical questions using your FamilyTreeDNA test results. They create opportunities for people to work together to explore their common genetic heritage.

Jeff and his brother both decided to take a DNA test, and that's when Jeff's FamilyTreeDNA story begins to reveal some surprises.

When Ivy was 20 years old, her mother told her that she was conceived through a hospital-run sperm donor program in New York.

Sandy and Joe welcomed a new son into their lives. He was 30 years old and discovered through FamilyTreeDNA that Joe was the father he'd been searching for.

Juliet grew up not knowing anything about her heritage. All she knew was that she was Caucasian.

Ken's children gave him a DNA kit for Father’s Day. He had been searching for his father. When he received the test results, he got the shock of his life.

Patricia always knew that her great-grandmother, Bridget Lohan, had been born in Ireland in the 1800s.  But that was all the information she had.

Because Donna was adopted, she wanted to learn more about her family history. What came back was completely unexpected.

Simmone had the idea to get her father tested to try and find more of his relatives. Perhaps more family members had made it out of North Korea. When she uploaded her father’s results to FamilyTreeDNA, she was surprised

Mikal was searching for her heritage. Little did she know, she would uncover something completely unexpected on her father’s side...and it wasn't her origins.

Read the story of Cindy and her son Christian and their journey with FamilyTreeDNA.

Then, Jim’s daughter Mikal called. Through FamilyTreeDNA, she’d found a sister no one knew about. Jim had another daughter. But she was in Vietnam...

Elyese never felt like she belonged anywhere. She never felt like she really knew who she was...

Donna thought she knew everything about her family but that all changed when she got an email...

Genetic genealogy is the use of DNA testing to determine relationships between individuals, find genetic matches and discover one’s ancestry.

We're not just genetics. We're not even just genetic genealogy. We are a family. We are FamilyTreeDNA...