The MyHeritage DNA test has helped millions explore their roots, connect with relatives worldwide, and uncover their ancestral origins across 79 ethnicities and 2,114 geographic regions. At $42 Canadian, it’s a Black Friday bargain.
You can add a 30-day free trial of the MyHeritage Complete plan, giving access to 36.9 billion historical records and features for building a family tree and interpreting DNA results — and if you do, you also get free shipping.
So why might you choose to test with MyHeritage DNA? After all, Ancestry DNA has a much larger database, 25+million, compared to 8 million.
- MyHeritage has a far larger proportion of testers from continental Europe, the UK and Ireland, Israel, South America, and other global regions. AncestryDNA is heavily U.S.-centric.
- MyHeritage offers a chromosome browser; AncestryDNA does not.
- MyHeritage now offers whole-genome sequencing (WGS) DNA testing by default. It reads nearly the entire genome (3 billion base pairs) instead of the much smaller sample of traditional tests (700,000 base pairs). This should become increasingly significant as the WGS database grows.