New Feature "Genetic Communities" from Ancestry DNA

Ancestry has announced a new DNA feature that has the genealogy community humming. All the bloggers are writing about it. It's called Genetic Communities. On your DNA Results home page where the Ethnicity Estimate has always been, you will see the Ethnicity Estimate "thousand of years ago" and under that Genetic Communities "hundreds of years ago". They are starting out assigning people to 300 Genetic Communities based on their DNA and locations in their trees. You can get a list of people who share your DNA and the community.

The pros think this is really cool and I especially like the historical information about each location broken down by time periods.

I suggest a favorite blogger, Blaine Bettinger at http://thegeneticgenealogist.com. It's the third post down. Another favorite of the Genies is Rebecca Estes at https://dna-explained.com/.

We'll being hearing a lot more about this and a similar new feature at Family Tree DNA called "Population Clusters".