June 23, 2025
Connect Your WikiTree to FamilyTreeDNA
FamilyTreeDNA has partnered with WikiTree! Learn how to link your collaborative tree, view your matches’ trees, and explore powerful DNA tools.
June 19, 2025
Tracing Your Maternal Roots: The Power of African mtDNA Haplogroups
From Haplogroup L0 to the Malagasy Motif, uncover the African maternal lineages that shaped humanity—and still live on in your mtDNA.
June 1, 2025
The World’s Largest Y-DNA Haplotree
FamilyTreeDNA’s Y-DNA haplotree includes over 91,000 branches and 761,000 variants — the most detailed paternal ancestry map in the world. Each month, we update this post with the latest growth stats, haplogroup insights, and tools to help you explore your place in history.
May 14, 2025
A Genealogist’s Guide to Understanding Your FamilyTreeDNA Autosomal Matches
Your Family Finder DNA match list is full of clues—if you know how to use it. This guide helps you make sense of your autosomal DNA results.
May 9, 2025
Ancient Connections of the Maternal Kind
Your maternal line holds secrets from across centuries and continents. See how mtDNA connects modern testers to ancient individuals around the world.
April 25, 2025
25 Years of Genetic Genealogy: A Conversation with Bennett Greenspan
What started as a question about one family name became the foundation of modern genetic genealogy. Here’s how Bennett Greenspan made it happen.
April 23, 2025
Voices from the Beginning: Early Group Project Administrators Reflect on 25 Years of FamilyTreeDNA
Two of FamilyTreeDNA’s earliest Group Project Administrators reflect on 25 years of discovery, innovation, and connection through genetic genealogy.
April 9, 2025
Understanding Y-DNA Haplogroups in Family Finder™ Results
Learn how Family Finder uses SNPs to assign Y-DNA haplogroups, what they mean for your paternal ancestry, and how to refine results with tools like Discover™ and Big Y-700.
April 3, 2025
DASTs, CASTs, and the Quest to Reclaim Lost Irish Clans: “Gene-Ealogy” and the New Era of Irish Surname, Clan, and Kindred Research
Explore how robust DNA and surname tree methods are helping researchers move beyond dominant Irish genealogy narratives to uncover lost clans like Ó Maol Phádraig of Bréifne.
March 5, 2025
2025 FamilyTreeDNA Discount Codes
Register online for free to attend the virtual conference, and be sure to visit our virtual booth!