Find Your Family Story With A 14 Day Free Trial

How would you like to get started?

There are many paths to finding your family story. Whichever way you choose—tracing your family generations back with a family tree or uncovering your ethnicity with AncestryDNA—we'll be here to help you.

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1

Just start with

what you know.

Add a few family members to your tree, and we'll search for them in our record collections.

2

Look for

the leaf.

The leaf is a hint—it means we've found something intriguing that may match your ancestor.

3

View the hint, and save it to your tree.

The hint could reveal a new name to search or even a new ancestor to add to your tree.

4

Watch your family story emerge.

The more you add, the more hints you get. And gradually your family story becomes clearer.