FamilyTreeDNA products

Test your Y-DNA and explore your paternal lineage. Connect with your Y-DNA relatives and trace your paternal line’s ancestry. A test for biological males, Y-DNA is used to help answer questions about relatedness on the paternal male line.

Explore your father’s line in greater depth with the world’s most comprehensive Y-DNA test. Surnames and historical records only reach back so far, but your paternal haplogroup has been passed down via DNA from father to son for thousands of years. The Big Y test unlocks the most specific Y-DNA haplogroup possible, finding the connections you need to uncover the origins of your father’s line.

A test for both biological males and females, mtDNA is used to help answer questions about relatedness on the direct maternal line. 

mtDNA is passed down from biological females: While both males and females inherit mtDNA, only biological females can continue to pass on mtDNA. mtDNA testing can help you discover and verify your direct maternal ancestry by connecting you with other individuals who are descendants of a shared common matrilineal ancestor.