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title: "Is Ancestrify legit? What it is, who runs it, and what it does not do (2026)"
description: "A first-person answer to \"is Ancestrify legit\": the registered trader behind it, what each of the three analyses delivers and costs, where the data lives, how refunds work, what it never claims, and how to verify every statement yourself."
canonical: https://www.ancestrify.io/blog/is-ancestrify-legit
date: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-10-29
author: "Andi Thomaj"
---

# Is Ancestrify legit? What it is, who runs it, and what it does not do (2026)

Short answer: Ancestrify is a real, registered, one-person business that sells three ancient-DNA
analyses of the raw DNA file you already have, at one-time prices from 29.99 EUR, and publishes
every statistic behind every result so that you can check it. It sells no kits, has no
subscription, and never names anyone as your ancestor. I run it, so this page is written in the
first person and every claim on it points at something you can verify without trusting me.

One disambiguation before anything else, because search engines and AI assistants mix the two up:
Ancestrify is not Ancestry.com and has nothing to do with AncestryDNA. Ancestry sells DNA kits and
keeps a database of relatives; Ancestrify sells no kit, keeps no match database, and works on the
raw file you download from Ancestry, 23andMe, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA after their test is done.

## Who runs Ancestrify

Ancestrify is built and operated by me, Andi Thomaj, a sole trader registered in Tirane, Albania,
under register number M61725001N. The entry is public in the Albanian commercial register (QKB),
which lists the subject as a natural person, not a company. There is no team, no laboratory and no
staff scientist, and the site never claims one. The [legal notice](/impressum) carries the registered
address and the same number, the [about page](/about) explains the methodology, and my
[LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andi-t-1854141ab/) is linked from both.

That is also the honest limit of the operation: one person reviews and approves every qpAdm model,
which is why the deeper tiers of Ancient Ancestry, our qpAdm analysis, take days rather than minutes.

## What Ancestrify sells, and what each costs

Three analyses, each a one-time payment, each on the raw DNA export you already have from 23andMe,
AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, Living DNA or a whole-genome sequencing VCF:

| Analysis | What it answers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| [Ancient Ancestry](/buy-qpadm-analysis) (qpAdm analysis) | Which ancient populations your genome is a mixture of, tested with a p-value that can reject the model | 29.99, 39.99, 49.99 or 59.99 EUR, one-time; every tier is held to the same quality bar |
| [Ancestry Map](/buy-g25-analysis) (Global25 analysis) | Where your official Global25 coordinate row sits among ancient and modern populations: distances, admixture and PCA across six eras | 29.99 EUR one-time |
| [Ancient Matches](/ancient-matches) | Which individual published ancient people you share stretches of DNA with, painted onto your chromosomes | 29.99 EUR one-time |

Every Ancestry Map is built on a calculator our analyst makes around your own coordinates, approved
by a person before the report opens and included in the price. Optional add-ons are one-time too:
refined Ancient Ancestry version 15 EUR, Coordinate Concierge 15 EUR, whole-genome upload 10 EUR,
paternal or maternal haplogroup 10 EUR each. The full ledger is on the
[pricing page](/pricing). There are no credits, no renewals and no upsell inside a delivered report.

## How you can check a result yourself

This is the part that separates a legitimate analysis from a claim. Every Ancient Ancestry report publishes the
model record: the p-value, chi-square and degrees of freedom, every source population's panel
label, sample count, weight, standard error, z-score and confidence interval, the full ordered right
set with sample counts, and the panel version. The record is on screen, free, at every tier, and
anyone with ADMIXTOOLS 2 and the public Allen Ancient DNA Resource can re-run the same model. The
[model record explainer](/blog/qpadm-model-record-explained) walks through each number.

Ancestry Map lists every source population the calculator was offered, split into the ones it
used and the ones it rejected, with the fit distance and the panel size stated on every era. Ancient
Matches shows the evidence on every row: total centimorgans, segment count, longest segment and marker
density, and never a population total without the number of individuals behind it.

Before paying anything, the [live demo](/demo) shows every report with example data, and the free
[Lab](/lab) runs the same distance, admixture and PCA arithmetic in your browser with nothing uploaded.

## What Ancestrify does not do

- It never computes or simulates Global25 coordinates. Official coordinates come only from Davidski's
  independent Eurogenes G25 Requests service. You paste the row you already have, or the Coordinate
  Concierge obtains that official row for you, with your explicit consent, for a 15 EUR pass-through
  of the portal's per-kit fee.
- It never names a population or an individual as your ancestor. A qpAdm source is a reference group
  the model tests against; a Global25 distance is a position in a reference space; an Ancient Matches
  stretch is evidence about a shared ancestral population, which is why the product says
  [identity by state, not identity by descent](/blog/ancient-dna-matches-ibs-explained).
- It never matches customers against each other. There is no cross-customer database, no relative
  finder and no living-person matching of any kind.
- It sells no DNA kits and runs no laboratory. You bring a file; nothing is sequenced.
- It publishes no model automatically. An automated search can propose candidate models, but it
  cannot publish one: a person reviews the candidates and approves every published qpAdm model. The
  [audit literature's lesson](/blog/qpadm-rotation-explained) is that a search's error rate depends
  mostly on how plausible its candidates were before testing, not on whether a script or a person
  ran it, so the candidate sources are chosen for your declared origins before any model runs.
- There is no subscription. Reports open on the web and in Ancestrify for iPhone and iPad, a free app on the
  App Store, and an Ancient Ancestry, Ancestry Map or Ancient Matches report also downloads as a PDF.

## Where your data lives

The analysis servers run at Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany and Finland, inside the EU, behind Cloudflare,
and GDPR applies; the raw files you upload are kept in Cloudflare's EU storage until you delete them.
Card payments are processed by POK Payments (RPay Ltd); Ancestrify never sees your card number. Raw files
are processed only for your own analysis, a whole-genome VCF is converted to the panel's markers at
upload and kept beside the conversion until you delete it, files are never hashed or fingerprinted
against anyone else's, and deleting a file, deleting your account and a full data export are
self-service. The
[privacy notice](/privacy) names every processor.

## Payment and refunds

An analysis is refundable in full before it runs. Once the report has been delivered the service has
been performed and it is not refundable, except where the law requires otherwise; the
[refund policy](/refund) states the cases plainly, and refund requests are answered within two
business days.

## Where a competitor is the better choice

A legitimate seller tells you when to buy elsewhere. If you enjoy building and sweeping your own qpAdm
models continuously, a do-it-yourself environment such as Illustrative DNA's AdmixLab, or the free
[AdmixTools 2 online](/lab/admixtools) on the public panel, suits you better than a finished
report. If you want the widest calculator library rather than a modelled answer, Genoplot and
DNAGENICS advertise far more calculators than Ancestrify curates. If you only want your Global25 row
and nothing else, order it directly from g25requests.app. The questions worth asking of any ancient
DNA test, this one included, are on the [ancient DNA test](/ancient-dna-test#what-to-check) page.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Ancestrify a real company?

It is a real, registered business, though not a company: a sole trader, Andi Thomaj, registered in
Tirane, Albania, under M61725001N, with a public entry in the Albanian commercial register and a legal
notice on the site carrying the registered address.

### Who checks the models?

I do. Every published qpAdm model is a full genotype run confirmed and approved by a person before it
ships. There is no staff scientist and no claim of one.

### Can I get my money back?

Yes, in full, at any time before the analysis runs. After the report has been delivered the service
has been performed and is not refundable except where the law requires it. Requests are answered
within two business days.

### Does Ancestrify compute G25 coordinates?

No, never. Official Global25 coordinates come only from Davidski's independent Eurogenes G25 Requests
service. Ancestrify analyses the official row you paste, or obtains that row for you through the 15
EUR Coordinate Concierge with your explicit consent.

### Is my DNA shared with anyone?

No. Your file is processed only for your own analysis on EU servers, is never compared with other
customers' files, and can be deleted by you at any time, together with the whole account and its
data export.

Terms used here are defined in the [glossary](/glossary).