Another year done, celebrating 2025 & looking ahead to 2026!

In this article, we will seek to explain some of the interesting facets of Irish ancestry, as well as discussing where the Irish came from and what a DNA kit might teach you about your potential Irish heritage.

If you’ve recently become interested in learning about your DNA, then you may be looking at some of the major ancestry lines, trying to figure out who your descendants were. You may question if your ancestors were Scandinavian warriors or not and if so, what that could mean...

Throughout November & December, a number of improvements are being made to your Living DNA portal. These changes have been designed to make the portal easier to use for everyone. Different people will be updated in phased rollouts, at first not all features will be live for everyone, but within the next few weeks they will be.

We are extremely excited to share the progress we have made with our autosomal DNA test for people with Germanic ancestry. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey.

Family Networks allows you to discover genetic relatives and draw new connections in your family research. It works by comparing your DNA to other people in the database that have also chosen to be part of the DNA matching service. All you have to do is opt in!

Neanderthals were our closest relatives, we share 99.7% of their DNA. They lived 200,000 to 30,000 years ago, when they eventually became extinct.

The team at Living DNA have been hard at work releasing new features this month and would like to share our latest developments.

Family history and genealogical research is one of the fastest growing communities in the world. In August , thousands celebrate National Family History Month.