Click on settings in the top right of the page.

At the top right, of the page chose this relative in the DNA dropdown menu if you have more than one relativeвЂ™s DNA which you are managing.

Go to your Ancestry account and click the DNA tab and select Your DNA Results Summary.

Linking a RelativeвЂ™s DNA Test to a Family Tree on Ancestry

Now the DNA test will appear on your own Ancestry account in the DNA dropdown menu.

Click вЂњsend invitationвЂќ and follow through to receive the invitation. Click Add a Person and enter your Ancestry email or username.

At the bottom of this page, you will see a box titled DNA Ethnicity and Matches Access.

Click on settings in the top right corner.

Sign into the relativeвЂ™s Ancestry account.

Be sure to add in whoever you have sent in the DNA test for to make the next steps super easy.ДЄlso, your relative will have to go into their Ancestry account and give permission, or if you have set their account up for them, you will need to go into their account and give permission to add the DNA to your tree. Add yourself, spouse, siblings, parents, and grandparents minimally. While youвЂ™re waiting for your DNA results to come back, I recommend that you set up your Ancestry family tree if you havenвЂ™t already. Why not make it a family affair with everyone contributing! Even if you have parents or grandparents who are doing the DNA test and DO want to be involved on Ancestry, you can send them an invite to view or even to contribute to your tree. I can correspond to potential relatives, etc. Because I did that, not only can I see their DNA, but I receive the messages and notifications for them about inquiries or DNA matches. Wait! You can connect your relativeвЂ™s DNA results to your own family tree on ? Yes! Because none of our parents were interested in monitoring their own Ancestry accounts, I linked their DNA to my own tree. For my parents who do use email, I walked them through the confirmation and set up details.Д¬onnect Your RelativeвЂ™s DNA results to your Family Tree on Next, go to and sign out of your account and register for an account in their names with their emails. My parents-in-law donвЂ™t even have emails, so I had to start by setting up email accounts for them with their permission. So if you are setting up DNA tests for relatives who are not interested in having their own Ancestry account, you will want to follow these steps. IвЂ™m so curious about my ancestry that I donвЂ™t really understand others who donвЂ™t really care about it. But it did not disappoint! More on the results later.ДЄbout Setting Up Ancestry DNA Tests for Relatives More and more people are getting interested, so the last one we sent in took about 7 weeks.

When we finally turned in my father-in-lawвЂ™s test, it didnвЂ™t work, so this time we took it to him ourselves when we went for a visit.ДЄfter turning in the results, it can take 4-8 weeks to get the results. Getting them to my parents-in-law and then back to us proved to be more challenging as they are living in Guatemala! The country no longer has a mail service because it was so unreliable, so we had to wait for someone to take the tests to the country and then arrange for someone else to bring them back in a timely fashion.

They easily followed the instructions and sent in their tests. The giving of this gift was simple for my parents as they are local. Giving this gift was easier said than done. Of course, the further back in your pedigree you can to the DNA test the better. The thought behind giving the tests to them was to get a clearer picture than doing them ourselves. We thought it would satisfy our familyвЂ™s curiosity as to where we all came from and hopefully confirm rumors of Native American and Jewish heritage that floated through the family stories. For a recent Christmas, my husband and I decided to give a gift to our parents that would then, in turn, give back to our family for possibly generations to come.

Only 30% of my dna matches my father