Credits
Last updated: August 11, 2026
Ancestrify stands on decades of openly published research and freely given software. This page names everyone whose work reaches you in a report, a map or a downloaded video, and the licence it reaches you under. Where a dataset or a tool asks to be cited, the citation is here in full.
Maps and imagery
The interactive atlas, the Haplo Mapper, the globe in every ancestry video and any live map posed in the Mapper are drawn from open map data and public-domain satellite imagery.
The underlying map data — coastlines, borders, rivers, place names — for the Light and Dark basemaps, including any Mapper figure posed on one.
Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
The vector tile schema our basemap styles are built against.
Licence: BSD-3-Clause (software) · CC BY 4.0 (schema)
Hosts the vector tiles, the shaded-relief raster and the Noto Sans glyph sets our maps render, including the live map the Mapper poses.
Licence: MIT
Natural Earth II with Shaded Relief (ne2sr) — the terrain shading under the Light and Dark basemaps.
Licence: Public domain
Blue Marble imagery. The BlueMarble_NextGeneration layer is the Satellite basemap — and the Satellite option when posing a map in the Mapper; BlueMarble_ShadedRelief_Bathymetry is the globe in the ancestry videos and its close-up detail tiles.
Licence: Public domain (NASA)
Reference data
Every ancient individual, population average and haplogroup in your report comes from published research datasets.
Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR)
Version 66, Human Origins panel — the ancient genomes every qpAdm model is fitted against. Compiled by the Reich Lab at Harvard Medical School.
Licence: CC0 1.0
Mallick S. et al. (2024). The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR): A curated compendium of ancient human genomes. Scientific Data 11, 182.
The Y-chromosome phylogeny and its branch age estimates, behind the Y-DNA clade finder and the Haplo Mapper.
Licence: CC BY-SA
The Y-SNP marker index that maps positions in your raw data onto named variants.
Licence: CC BY-SA
The Global25 coordinate system. Global25 is an independent service; we analyse the coordinates you supply and are not affiliated with it.
Analysis software
The statistics in your report are produced by published, peer-reviewed tools rather than anything we invented.
Runs qpAdm, qpWave, qpGraph and the f-statistics in the AdmixLab workbench.
Licence: MIT
Maier R. et al. (2023). On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics. eLife 12, e85492.
convertf, used to build and convert the reference panels.
Patterson N. et al. (2012). Ancient Admixture in Human History. Genetics 192(3), 1065–1093.
Merges your genotypes with the reference panel before an analysis runs.
Licence: GPL-3.0
Chang C.C. et al. (2015). Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets. GigaScience 4, 7.
Packages and merges the ancient-genome archive our panels are assembled from.
Licence: MIT
clade-finder — Hunter Provyn / YSEQ
The Y-haplogroup placement algorithm behind the clade finder.
Licence: MIT
Encodes the ancestry videos we render for you.
Licence: LGPL-2.1-or-later · GPL-2.0-or-later (x264)
Icons and flags
The symbols that stand in for populations, sources and countries across the app.
The population and source glyphs shown in charts, on the map and in downloadable share cards and videos. Created by the contributors to game-icons.net.
Licence: CC BY 3.0
The country flags you can pin to a target in the AdmixLab.
Licence: MIT — Copyright (c) HatScripts
The interface icons throughout the app, via MUI.
Licence: Apache-2.0
Typography
The typefaces the app and its exported media are set in.
The interface and body face.
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1 — Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter)
The display face used for headlines and era titles.
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1 — Copyright 2020 The Fraunces Project Authors (github.com/undercasetype/Fraunces)
Figures, distances and percentages, where digits need to line up.
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1 — Copyright 2017 IBM Corp. All rights reserved.
The place names on the maps, served as glyph sets by OpenFreeMap.
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Photography
Photographs that are not ours and not generated.
The portraits of the fictional people in our public demo. No real customer's photograph appears anywhere on this site.
Licence: Unsplash License
Open-source software
The libraries this website is built from.
Renders the interactive maps.
Licence: BSD-3-Clause
The application framework, router and data layer.
Licence: MIT
The component library and charts.
Licence: MIT
Draws the globe and the animated scenes on the home page.
Licence: MIT
Encodes the videos your browser exports.
Licence: MPL-2.0
The cookie preferences dialog.
Licence: MIT
Corrections
If your work is used here and is credited wrongly, incompletely, or not at all, tell us and we will fix it. Write to info@ancestrify.io. How we handle personal data is a separate document — see our Privacy Notice.