Ancestry announced yesterday it has launched AncestryDNA in Canada.
Ancestry said in its news release, “When coupled with Ancestry’s database of more than 16 billion historical records, AncestryDNA will enable family history enthusiasts and novices alike to discover even more about their own past, including the ability to find entire new cousin matches around the world.”
The service works through breaking down a person’s ethnic origin and predicting the locations of their ancestors across 26 populations, reaching farther back into history than historical records limit.
Christopher Labrecque, country manager for Ancestry Canada, said, “Historical records on Ancestry.ca provide an insight into one’s recent past, but usually go around 200-300 years, so it’s incredibly exciting to be able to offer DNA testing that takes your family history experience back many hundreds and even thousands of years. AncestryDNA enables users to learn more than ever about where they came from and discover new family lines and relatives. It really is the ultimate family history experience.”
According to Ancestry, “The test uses microarray-based autosomal DNA testing to look at more than 700,000 locations across an individual’s entire genome through a simple saliva sample. The AncestryDNA approach provides a much more detailed look at one’s family history than other existing Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA tests that only look at specific branches of a person’s family tree.”
The service also introduces users to new family members through DNA member matches which identifies unknown relatives pulled from more than 850,000 people who have previously taken the test. Many users can expect to be connected with third and fourth cousins, allowing them to further grow their family trees and discover family members they may not have known existed.
The cost of this DNA test is $149 plus shipping.
Learn more here.
How much is shipping to Canada, by the way? I couldn’t find mention of it on the site and it asks for a credit card number before showing shipping information.
John D. Reid listed the shipping cost in his blog post — http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2015/06/more-on-ancestrydna-in-canada.html. I hope this helps.
I am interested in submitting my DNA. My background is Trinidadian which is in the Caribbean. Is it possible to do this? Thank you so much.
I cannot see how this would be a problem.