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If you want to understand your DNA test results...

Start with a Tour of your DNA testing company

Get your DNA results working for you

  • Go from confusion to clarity

  • Learn to navigate your DNA testing company confidently

  • Understand what your DNA is telling you about your roots
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Here's what's included in each Tour

  • An on-demand Tour experience with engaging video instruction and exercises, so you can go at your own speed: start, stop, and come back if you need to, or rewatch whenever you want

  • Indefinite access to your Tour, with occasional updates as MORE exciting new tools or features are added at the testing company, so you can KEEP learning MORE of what your DNA can tell you

  • A colorful, multi-page, interactive, printable PDF workbook you can fill in as you go along–and which becomes a useful reference guide

  • BONUS: A handy digital Quick Reference Guide, with at-a-glance reference for the important tools and features you’ll want to visit on the site
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What you'll learn in each Tour

AncestryDNA
Welcome: Course Description and Resources

Unit 1: Ethnicity Results at AncestryDNA: Deep Ancestry

Navigating Your Origins
Dig into your DNA Origins: Deep Ancestry
Ethnicity Inheritance: Origins by Parent
Implement Your Deep Ancestry

Unit 2: Ethnicity Results at AncestryDNA: Recent Ancestry

Dig into your DNA Origins: Recent Ancestry
Dig into your DNA Origins: Map Locations
Implement Your Recent Ancestry Results
Ethnicity Updates!

Unit 3: DNA Matches at AncestryDNA

An Introduction to DNA Matches
AncestryDNA Match List: Navigating the Match Page
AncestryDNA Match Profile
Implement Your DNA Matches at AncestryDNA

Unit 4: Next Steps: You've Only Just Begun!

AncestryDNA ThruLines
Take Next Steps


Unit 5: Set Your Settings (Settings Are Boring, But They Matter)

 

FamilyTreeDNA's Family Finder

Welcome: Course Description and Resources

Unit 1: Getting Started with FTDNA: An Overview

Testing vs. Transferring
Add a Family Tree to FTDNA

Unit 2: Ethnicity Estimates at FTDNA

Dig into your DNA: Ancient Origins
Navigating myOrigins
Let’s Explore myOrigins: Deep Ancestry
Implement Your Ethnicity
Ethnicity Updates

Unit 3: DNA Matches at FTDNA

An Introduction to DNA Matches
Family Finder Matches: Navigation
Family Finder Matches: The Match List Part I
Family Finder Matches: The Match List Part II
Family Finder Matches: Compare Origins
Implement Your DNA Matches

Unit 4: Next Steps: You’ve Only Just Begun!

Other Family Finder Tools
Additional DNA Testing at FTDNA
DNA Testing Plan
DO GENEALOGY!

Unit 5: Set Your Settings (Settings Are Boring, But They Matter)

MyHeritage DNA

Welcome: Course Description and Resources

Unit 1: Getting Started with MyHeritage DNA

Test vs Transfer
Navigating MyHeritage DNA

Unit 2: Ethnicity Results at MyHeritage DNA: Deep Ancestry

Dig Into Your Ethnicity - Navigation
Dig Into Your Ethnicity - Deep Ancestry
Implement Your Deep Ancestry

Unit 3: Ethnicity Results at MyHeritage DNA: Recent Ancestry

Dig into your MyHeritage Ethnicity: Genetic Groups
Implement your Recent Ancestry
Ethnicity Updates!

Unit 4: DNA Matches at MyHeritage DNA

An Introduction to DNA Matches
MyHeritage DNA Match List: Navigating the Match Page
Take Action! DNA Matches at MyHeritage
DNA Match Page: The Match Profile Page
Implement Your DNA Matches

Unit 5: Next Steps: You’ve Only Just Begun!

MyHeritage DNA Advanced Tools
MyHeritage DNA Theory of Family Relativity
Take Next Steps

Unit 6: Set Your Settings

Better Take a Look at Those Settings

23andMe

Note: 23andMe customers were impacted by a security breach in 2023, which led to some change and uncertainty for customers. We have to work around a few tools that are currently disabled at 23andMe, but it's still worth understanding how the site works and how to do analysis that can be done there.

Welcome: Course Description and Resources


Unit 1: Getting Started with 23andMe

Overview


Unit 2: Ethnicity Results at 23andMe: Deep Ancestry

Navigating Your Ancestry Composition

Dig Into Your DNA: Deep Ancestry

Let's Explore Haplogroups

Implement Your Deep Ancestry


Unit 3: Ethnicity Results at 23andMe: Recent Ancestry

Dig Into Your DNA: Recent Ancestry Places

Dig Into Your DNA: Recent Ancestry Relatives

Implement Your Recent Ancestry

Ethnicity Updates


Unit 4: DNA Matches at 23andMe

An Introduction to DNA Matches

23andMe Relatives: Navigating the Match Page

23andMe Relatives: DNA Match Profile

Implement Your DNA Matches at 23andMe


Unit 5: Next Steps: You’ve Only Just Begun!

Next Steps with Your Ancestry Composition

Family Tree Tool

Chromosome Browser

DNA Testing Plan

Do Genealogy!


Unit 6: Set Your Settings

Settings Are Boring, But They Matter

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What people are saying about our Tours

Anon testimonial

Candice Steelman

"I was really impressed with the FTDNA tour I just finished! I thought it was going to be an easy overview of all the buttons to push on the site. But it was truly an in-depth look. Thank you!"

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Penny Blackwell

"I have just recently joined [MyHeritage]. I've had DNA on there for a while. I had NO idea of all the awesome features of this website. Frankly, I doubt I would have ever found them on my own. I highly recommend this course for everyone, whether you've been a member for 2 days or 10 years. Diahan is an excellent instructor and shows you exactly how to find each and every feature and how to use them. Thank you SO much for doing this Tour!!"

Anon testimonial

Barbara Hutchinson

"I had already "clicked" around quite a few of the links that Diahan explains in this course, but she did take me down some holes that I had missed. I really enjoyed her straight forward and fun demeanor she displays as she teaches. If you're just starting your AncestryDNA journey, I would highly recommend starting it here. I think you'll find this course well worth the price and time you invest in it."

Anon testimonial

Rod Merrill

"I've taken a number of DNA courses but this one taught by Lori and Diahan ranks right up there at the top of my favorites. I found it extremely interesting and useful. The knowledge I gained prompted me to do more research and to reach a new hypothetical conclusion on an adoption case I've been working on for several years. I highly recommend this tour."

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