Ancestry: Family History & DNA

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4.5
163K reviews
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About this app

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

Phone and Tablet 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.

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
Consumer Health Privacy https://www.ancestry.com/c/legal/wa-health-privacy

*Within free apps in Google Play Store Books & Reference category
Updated on
Nov 13, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 8 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
145K reviews
Keira Derby
October 24, 2025
So buggy I don't even know what they are doing for every update except making it worse. At first it wasn't a huge deal, kept pinging back to the top when I scrolled the discover page, still does it and is getting more and more annoying. Now I'm getting Ancestors and World Events reads on myself and family in the 20s and 50s of the USA, none of us were alive nor in the US. Can't dismiss anything it just errors. Every update I get hopeful they've fixed some issues, but it's just exactly the same.
7 people found this review helpful
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Joules Duncan
October 14, 2025
This app barely lets you sign in. Then every single time you click on a potential relative it tosses up an error that it isn't available and you need to add it manually. Useless. **EDIT: I am not on an older version, as there is no update available. This app is awful. I am not going to email you when you tried to gaslight me into thinking it was my fault that your app is faulty. Work out the bugs and release the update.
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Ancestry.com
October 14, 2025
It looks like you are on an older version of the app. Please upgrade to the latest version and reach out to us through an email to [email protected] if you are still having trouble. Thanks
Craig James Bauer
August 10, 2025
the new version with the coloured bars at the bottom of the card.(red.amber. green) is a terrible version of this app. it's hard to use. difficult to edit or to see information that i saved. cannot wait to see it gone. I've used this app for over 2 years and this is by far the worst. if I had not invested over 2 years into my tree, iam not sure i would carry on using this version.
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Ancestry.com
August 12, 2025
Dear User, the coloured bars indicate "completeness". You can toggle them off. If you have other improvements that you would like to suggest please email [email protected].

What’s new

You can now view profile photo suggestions in the homepage to help you improve the quality of your family tree.