Your Ancestry Family History membership and AncestryDNA can work separately, or enhance each other by showing you different kinds of information about your history.

You can do this by searching for records for the sibling of the oldest ancestor you've found and then looking through the sibling's records to find their parents.

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The higher a result is in the list of search results, the more likely it is to be about your ancestor, while lower results may be less relevant or less likely to be about your ancestor.

Discover your family history by searching your ancestor's name on Ancestry®, the leading online resource for genealogy research. Start your person search here.

If you’re having a difficult time locating your ancestor, try searching using only given names and other details like birth year, residence, family members, place of birth, etc.

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This helps us pinpoint the likely ancestor (s) you share. Together, these details allow us to identify your shared ancestor—or the specific ancestral couple—with very high confidence for close matches.