Connect Your WikiTree to FamilyTreeDNA

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.


The Power of African mtDNA Haplogroups

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.


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.


How to Understand Your DNA Matches

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.


Ancient Maternal DNA Connections via mtDNA Discover

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.


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.


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.


Featured image with DNA strands and a male silhouette, overlaid with the blog title “Understanding Y-DNA Haplogroups in Family Finder Results” and a tagline about how Family Finder provides a Y-DNA haplogroup for paternal ancestry insights.

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.


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.


2025 FamilyTreeDNA Discount Codes

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