An ancestor is a direct forebear related to an individual by kinship. When we talk about ancestors, we refer to the predecessors of a person, family, or group of people who have originated that common descent.
With an ancestry test, we compare your genetic information with that of thousands of individuals from different reference populations and ethnicities. In this way, we do not determine your country of birth or the provenance of your ancestors or their origin, as it is not based on an analysis of past genetic populations. The information you will obtain is which current populations present a similar genetics to yours and in what percentage. This implies that you and the people from those populations represented in your report share a common ancestor.