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MyHeritage DNA Kit
- Price: $49
- The test requires a cheek swab
- DNA and personal data are stored with multiple layers of encryption
- Results will be available in three to four weeks
Why We Picked It
The DNA kit from MyHeritage hopes to provide much information about your racial history.
FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder Kit
- Price: $49
- Test requires a cheek swab
- Looks at autosomal DNA from the past five generations
- Provides privacy settings for DNA results
- Results available in four to eight weeks
Why We Picked It
In the form of a percentage breakdown of your origins, FamilyTreeDNA provides a “detailed ethnic and geographic breakdown” of where your ancestors originated.
Living DNA Full Ancestry Kit
- Price: $79
- Test requires a cheek swab
- Provides privacy settings for DNA results
- Features free ancestry updates
- Results available in six to eight weeks
Why We Picked It
The Complete Ancestry kit from Living DNA offers a thorough ancestry breakdown with 150 global regions, 21 sub-regions within the British Isles, and 72 genetic regions inside Africa.
23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service
- Price: $99
- The test requires saliva collection
- FSA/HSA is eligible
- Includes over 30 traits reports
- Provides privacy settings for DNA results
- Results available in two to five weeks
Why We Picked It
Although 23andMe’s ancestry kit is more expensive than the competition, it makes some amazing promises, including ancestry percentages down to 0.1% and a list of over 2,000 areas to which your DNA may belong—in certain cases, “down to the county level.”
Ancestry DNA
- Price: $99
- Test requires saliva collection
- Includes an ethnicity inheritance feature
- Provides privacy settings for DNA samples
- Results available in six to eight weeks
Why We Picked It
Although 23andMe’s ancestry kit is more expensive than the competition, it makes some amazing promises, including ancestry percentages down to 0.1% and a list of over 2,000 areas to which your DNA may belong—in certain cases, “down to the county level.”
