Haplogroups provide us with a look at our ancient ancestral roots dating back tens of thousands of generations ago.
All people living today descended from one of 18 ancient Y-DNA haplogroups on their paternal line (classified by the letters A to R) and 26 ancient mtDNA haplogroups (A to Z) from their maternal line.
Our Y-DNA, which is passed down from a father to his sons, shows that all people living today shared a common paternal ancestor who lived in Africa over 100,000 years ago. He is often termed the “Y-Chromosomal Adam”. The diagram below is a phylogenetic tree illustrating how all people living today share a common paternal ancestor. Click here to download a detailed copy of the Y-DNA Haplogroup Phylogenetic Tree.
View the phylogenetic tree of mankind and see which ancient family group you descended from.
Paternal Ancient Ancestry
Haplogroups provide us with a look at our ancient ancestral roots dating back tens of thousands of generations ago. 
