Ancestry Partners With Spotify To Produce Your “Heritage Playlist”

This is one of the coolest things to hit the genealogy market since Ancestry opened its online doors in 1996. If you love music, then you’re going to love this new Your “Heritage Playlist” where Ancestry has partnered with music-giant Spotify to produce what Ancestry is phrasing “the unique sound of your ancestry.” Pretty catchy, ey?

Another headline they are employing, which I like, is “what does your DNA sound like?” That’s some pretty slick advertising, and I like it. So, what you do is log on to Ancestry.com and there should be a cool advertisement bar on the very top of the page enticing you to create your Spotify playlist. As someone who has always had a deep affinity for music, I just could not resist finding out more about this! There is also an advert bar in your DNA Results Summary page.

When you click on the link, you are still on Ancestry where you get to select your regions. The regions you are selecting are drawn from your DNA Story around which your Spotify playlist will be created. Below is the lead-in page that dreamily entices you to “discover your world of music.” The layout is very nicely designed and the selection process literally only takes a few minutes.

From there you simply choose what area(s) of the world your DNA comes from and then up to 5 regions total. The choices are vibrantly laid out and the selection process is clean and intuitive. Once you choose a region, it is highlighted for you to choose the next one; you obviously don’t have to choose 5, but what you do choose will affect your final playlist results. PREVIEW: Spotify only gives you 20 songs in your Heritage Playlist to listen to so the more regions you choose, the less songs you might get per region.

Once you are done choosing your regions you will be brimming with excitement! I was so overcome with anticipation that I could barely sit still. As a person who has never liked top 40 music all that much I spent my entire youth searching out underground music and following the path-less-traveled when it came to what I was listening to. Music platforms like Spotify are an amazing technological breakthrough when it comes to finding, let’s just call it “unique,” new music!

In order to listen to your Heritage Playlist list on Spotify you will have to sign up for an account there if you don’t have one already. Spotify offers you to use your Facebook login, which I personally never like to do only because it seems like Facebook shares too much of your information and somewhat uncomfortably asks to post for you. My advice, just create a new profile for yourself.

Boom! That’s it. Go and enjoy your new “Your Heritage Playlist” on Spotify! Although I wasn’t 100% into all of the selections that were presented to me, it’s ok, it was about finding new stuff to listen to. I found some cool new UK tracks as well as some pretty funky Lithuanian music that I had never even dreamed was out there as I’ve only been exposed to the traditional stuff.

HINT: You can simply go back through the selection process again and again using your same login details to generate new playlists! So, what do you think of Your Heritage Playlist?