Heritage Tours are exclusive trips designed to help travelers like you discover your family story. These Heritage Tours were created in collaboration with Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics. Ancestry® harnesses the information found in family trees, historical records, and DNA to help people gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

Wondering how to plan a family heritage research trip? Or how to find out more about your family tree? These guided genealogy tours in Europe are for you.

On all Go Ahead Tours, the details are handled—and these genealogy trips are no exception. Every tour includes an expert Tour Director, sightseeing tours with local guides, breakfast daily, select lunches and dinners, private transportation, and handpicked hotels. Itineraries are carefully planned to offer you a balance of planned activities and free time for you to explore on your own.

Plus, there are a few benefits that are exclusive to our Heritage Tours.

• As part of your tour package, you’ll receive an AncestryDNA® kit within one month of booking your trip. The DNA test is easy to take—and the sooner you complete it, the sooner you'll receive your results!
• Set goals in advance with help from an AncestryProGenealogists® expert. Prior to your tour, we will contact you to schedule your 5-hour pre-trip family history review.
• A genealogist from AncestryProgenealogists® will accompany your group and provide unique insight throughout the entire trip. This professional genealogist specializes in the history of your destination and will paint a picture of what life was like for your ancestors, plus answer questions about your heritage.

Heritage travel is a perfect fit for you if you're looking for a new way to trace your ancestry. Currently, our Heritage Tours visit Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Italy.

Ancestry® offers customized ancestral home visits during and after the main trip for an additional cost. With these, one of the AncestryProGenealogists® staff will accompany you to the exact town or village in Italy where your own specific ancestors lived. If you’re interested in an ancestral home visit, ask about organizing one during your pre-trip family history review.

DNA travel has been growing in popularity as many people are interested in traveling to the places their ancestors are from. If you're interested in finding out more about your family tree, a Heritage Tour is a way to do that with the help of experts.

A professional genealogist can help you piece together aspects of your family history. After gathering information on your own by talking to relatives and looking through family records, the next step is to take an AncestryDNA® test to see your results. From there, a genealogist from AncestryProGenealogists® can be a resource to help you continue your research both at home and in the destination you visit on tour.

One piece of family history research advice from Kyle Betit, Senior Genealogist and Research Manager at AncestryProGenealogists®? "No matter how much you research online or how many records you look at, ultimately there is no replacement for going there to walk where your family walked, and see how and where they lived, worked, worshipped, and studied."