The great eras of your lineage, dated, with the names of the peoples your family lived among.
You travel back in time in images. In each era you see where your family lived and which people it belonged to.
The share of each prehistoric people you descend from, thousands of years back.
Three eras of an example
The example on this page: a person born in Île-de-France, to two parents born in Île-de-France.
- France 86%
- Poland 9%
- Greece 2%
- Algeria 2%
- Cyprus 1%
France: Franks · Carolingians · Bretons · Gauls · Gallo-Romans · Armoricans. The Germanic people who gave France its name: from Clovis to Charlemagne, they forged the first great kingdom of the West.
- Anatolian farmers 47%
- Steppe pastoralists 38%
- Western hunter-gatherers 15%
The France chapter
Every country that matters in your lineage has its own chapter. You can read the Book online, or download it as a PDF to print.
- Your oldest origins, with the percentage of each people
- The historical figures born in your regions
- A full report you can print
Before France, there was Gaul: a group of Celtic peoples, the Gauls, whom Rome conquered in the 1st century BCE and deeply Romanised. This is where French comes from. At the fall of Rome, Germanic peoples settled, among them the Franks of Clovis, who gave the country its name. …
Every figure is measured on families whose answer is already known, and where the data runs thin, the page says so.
We draw on published ancient DNA data and on the history of populations. To check that it works, we test the calculation on families whose origin is already known: we hide it from the calculation, and we watch whether it finds it again.
Probabilistic estimate for cultural and recreational purposes, with no genetic or diagnostic value.
Three birthplaces and three skin tones are enough to start.
Yours and those of both your parents, with your skin tone and theirs. Your grandparents and a family name, if you know them, make the result more precise.