|About African Ancestry|

African Ancestry is a company that transform the way people view themselves and the way they view Africa!

Founded in 2003 by Dr. Rick Kittles and Gina Paige, the Washington D.C. based company has today helped over an estimated 100,000 people re-connect with the roots of their family tree. 

African Ancestry is the world leader in tracing maternal and paternal lineages of African descent.  With the industry’s largest and most comprehensive database of over 25,000 indigenous African samples, African Ancestry determines specific countries, and more often than not, specific ethnic groups of origin with the highest level of detail, accuracy and confidence. 

African Ancestry is committed to providing a unique service to the black community, working daily to improve the cultural, emotional, physical, spiritual and economic wellbeing of peoples across the African Diaspora.