Ancestry: Family History & DNA

Ancestry: Family History & DNA

By Ancestry.com

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2010-01-19
  • Current Version: 16.8.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 344.83 MB
  • Developer: Ancestry.com
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 4.80093
4.80093
From 401,280 Ratings

Description

Explore who and where you personally came from through photos, stories, historical records, and so much more— even your ethnicity and family communities if you’ve taken an AncestryDNA® test. And with just one relative’s name, you can start to discover your family history anytime, anywhere with Ancestry®, the top genealogy app*. Why you’ll love to discover your family story using the Ancestry® app: • View your family tree, search and add new family members, upload photos, and share stories - all with just a few taps • With a free trial or paid subscription easily access more than 30 billion records, photos, and more • The dynamic Discover feed lets you review, dismiss, and save your discoveries and hints for later • Activate your AncestryDNA® kit and view your ethnicity results • See your DNA matches and compare your results with them • Learn even more about your family story when you combine your tree with your DNA results • Preserve your history with your own personalized family tree • Collaborate with friends and family - it couldn’t be easier • Our modern layout design makes it even easier for you to explore • Discover stories, photos, and records about your ancestors with Ancestry Hints® • Personal traits. Add Traits to your DNA results to see how your genes could influence 35+ fitness, nutrient, sensory and appearance traits. Free Features: • Build a family tree • Search the census records and access more than 1.1 billion free records • Receive hints based on your tree • Scan or upload your own family pictures • Receive messages from Ancestry members • See your ancestors' life stories on a map Available with an optional free trial or subscription: • View more than 30 billion records. • Use Ancestry Hints® to learn about ancestors • Find pictures of your family • Discover new relatives • Unrestricted messaging iPhone and iPad Features: • Curious about your family tree? Simply look up a relative's name, discover their story, and then share it with your loved ones • Remember the high school years by finding yearbook photos to share with your close family and friends, all with just one quick tap • Review your personalized hints • Add photos, hints, or ancestor stories and watch your personalized family tree grow • Watch Ancestry Academy Videos that get you started with genealogy research • Easily upload or scan photos and add facts or stories to your family tree • Learn about historical events that affected your ancestors’ lives. Apple Watch Features: • Get on-this-day alerts for events from your family history. Download the Ancestry Family History & DNA app to start exploring your heritage and more, today! View our Terms and Conditions at: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions View our Privacy Statement at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement CCPA Notice at Collection https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement#personal-info-categories WA Health Privacy https://www.ancestry.com/c/legal/wa-health-privacy *within free apps in the Apple App Store's Reference category

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Reviews

  • Amazing

    5
    By Steveandpamela
    It’s amazing that it pulled in my grandparents and great grandparents from United States federal census from years ago.

  • Lost access to dna/thru lines features due to new requirements and glitches

    1
    By Dianthaevelyn
    I renewed the subscription last fall as a gift for a family member who has been a paying member for about 20 years. Not long after, most dna, thru lines and several other areas were locked. So now we have to deal with 2FA because suddenly that is required. Well, that code to enable it has not arrived after numerous tries. They are blaming her email provider, but that’s what was used to sign up and the account is locked to that email. The membership ends in the fall, we won’t be renewing. This has been a problem for other members I have spoken to as well. Also recently I can’t save any records or photos on any device or browser for months. That’s the norm now. Time to find a genealogy site that treats members better.

  • Good stuff

    5
    By Jazz@work
    Good stuff.

  • Corporate Greed

    1
    By askfhsnei
    Corporate Greed has now hit Ancestry. They used to show shared matches but now require you pay a subscription. Pathetic.

  • Traits not working

    1
    By Sarahelizabethveatchqwertyhj
    “traits” hasn’t worked for almost a week. Keeps saying “server inhabitable, please try again”

  • Amazing!!!!

    5
    By very very gooooooooooos
    I love this app. It is so cool to see you heritage, and family you have from the other side of the world! This was a really cool experience and I love getting updates on new people I am related to. Also I payed extra to see my passed down traits, and it was worth it! I thought it was really cool and apparently I have a sweet sensitivity! I guess that why a lot of sweets are way too sweet for me. And also they keep adding more and more traits!

  • Writing for ancestry

    5
    By Lue jahu
    Great app

  • Something went wrong

    2
    By Kevira
    This app used to work well and now it’s a mess. The app swirls and doesn’t save changes, or saves but doesn’t show the changes. It’s been this way for a couple months and it hasn’t been fixed. In my opinion this makes the app useless. Searches on an ancestor have always been a struggle on the app. But now there are too many bugs; it’s more frustrating than helpful for my research. I avoid it and now only work on a browser.

  • Is it possible to have an update without breaking things?

    3
    By 'liza
    Before I start complaining, I want to make it clear that I like the app. I really do - I use it all the time. I’m just getting very tired of some feature breaking with every single update. They finally got the thing where it randomly added pictures to the wrong person fixed, but then you briefly couldn’t add profile pics at all, which was frustrating. That too has been fixed, but then it was briefly not saving relationship info - everything went in as ‘unknown’, no matter what, unless you added it manually - which fortunately seems to have stopped now. However, it’s currently refusing to save any marriage or divorce info from records - it has to be added manually every time. The most recent update changed the add picture function so you can’t specify what type it is or tag people while adding - you have to edit it after the fact. Maybe this was supposed to be more efficient or something, but I find it super annoying. I don’t want everything categorized automatically as a ‘portrait or family photo’! Also, the little pop up asking if I want to invite the person I’ve just added to help with my tree is driving me mad. Whose brilliant idea was that?? I can’t find a way to turn it off. Also, and this has been a thing forever, anytime a record has a suffix after a name - Jr, Sr, male or female when someone entered info in the wrong fields - the app automatically adds it, overwriting what you may already have there, even when you do not tell it to change the name field. If it says ‘Jr’, I do not want that overwritten with ‘junior’ - it may mean the same thing, but it’s messy and I don’t like it. If I want it changed, I’ll tick the box to overwrite! And I definitely don’t ever want ‘male’ or ‘female’ randomly populating in the suffix field. These are only my most recent grievances, and they do not render the app unusable, but I feel like it’s slowly getting less and less functional as time goes on.

  • The Ties That Bind

    5
    By TLWilson1
    My daughter started our family tree, and after receiving her invitation I was soon enthralled with adding new branches. I found it comforting knowing all of family members that will await meet when I cross over someday.

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