AncestryDNA is a consumer DNA test from Ancestry. Customers order a kit by post, give a saliva sample at home and mail it back; results are viewed on the AncestryDNA website. They include an estimate of ancestral regions, a sortable list of DNA matches with relatives, and optional traits. Some DNA features require an Ancestry subscription, which also opens family-history records. Customers can download their data, request deletion of their results, or ask for their physical sample to be destroyed.
Ancestry is headquartered in Lehi, Utah, and has been owned by Blackstone since December 2020. For customers outside the United States, Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company is the controller, but data is transferred to US group companies for processing, and the privacy statement says data resides with cloud service vendors. Transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and several Ancestry entities are certified under it. No European storage region is stated. Because the group is US-owned, US legal access remains possible, which European users should weigh given how sensitive genetic data is.