Just me here taking notes on how to use the haplogroup information, wow😯 ETA: I talked about the actual DNA breakdown in this video a bit ruclips.net/video/1a57IIFyPmA/видео.html
Glad he could explain to you the advantage of FTDNA mt tests and matches, much better than I could myself. ^__^ They are currently on sale for the end of the year festivities, maybe you could buy one and have collaborative videos together. ^__^
The genetic communities are a seriously underrated and overlooked tool I swear. I am a Black American with roots in Maryland, Virginia, and both the Carolinas. My ethnicity estimates were pretty generic: primarily West and Central African with some Northern European (80% and 20% respectively). However, my genetic communities were quite interesting. I got 4 African American genetic communities and the two that stuck out to me the most were: Coastal Carolina African Americans Early South Carolina African Americans. I learned a lot about these two genetic communities. But to keep it short, the historical timeline of both these communities line up with the history of the Gullah Geechee people of the coastal Carolinas and Georgia. To say I was happy and fascinated to learn that I could have a genetic connection to this amazing group of black Americans is an understatement.
I have been in correspondence with her, she owes a lot of her success to Elizabeth Shown Mills and her books. Elizabeth is one of the forerunners of the genealogical evidence proponents
The genetic communities are interesting. My mum has 4 genetic communities 2 associated with her maternal side (Dorset & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall) and 2 with her paternal side (Asians in South Africa and Eastern China & Southeast Asia). My mum is half English (Dorset, Somerset and Devon) and half Mauritian Creole (Mozambican, Malagasy, Chinese and Indian). Before DNA testing we didn't know about my mum's Chinese ancestry, then when we met her cousins for the first time they confirmed that they have a Chinese great grandfather on their paternal grandmother's side. My mother's X chromosomes one is entirely British & Irish and the other almost entirely Chinese. For myself I only have 1 community (Dorset & Somerset), nothing for the other 3/4 of my ancestry 🤷 I think largely due to lack of DNA matches from the areas and being 1 generation further removed. My dad for example 23andme assigned several Dutch areas, but me nothing. Also my mum Madagascar and China but not me. I got one group in Africa Shona & Nguni peoples that my mum has on 23andme.
The TLDR; just read the first paragraph and the last if the details don't matter. The genetic communities are such a useful tool. I wish more folks talked about them. (Off-hand question if you read this: how weird is it to know you have say, Dutch ancestry or know you have family from Luxembourg for it to not show come in a community?) When I did my Ancestry test I expected to get something that said Great Lakes region or there abouts & would have considered that sufficient... but I was hoping for more. I ended up with four communities of significance! 3 of which were surprising. - Upper Midwest Settlers which I expected, but there were 3 sub-groups below that. The overwhelming majority of my family have lived in the intersection of those 3 areas for the 4 generations before me & many of my cousins & second cousins still do. It was uncanny to realize - Early Connecticut & New York Settlers, a group I wasn't expecting & - Early New England Settlers, a group I was hoping for. When I first began fiddling on Ancestry when it was brand new, I found myself tying into family trees with early-American ties in Massachusetts on my dad's side. I did NOT expect that. I honestly didn't think those other trees were correct. What I *REALLY* didn't expect though, was that years later, I'd take a DNA test and find *BOTH* sides of my families tie to Early Settlers. That led me on a months long journey of digging... tracing parts of both my mom's family & my dad's family to the same areas of New England I would eventually move to as a teenager (having been born in the Midwest). Ancestors, direct line ancestors of a handful of branches on both sides of my family could have interacted, crossed paths, knew the same people for all I know they lived within such close proximity to each other! We're talking 4-5-6-7 generations back... decades before the Revolution kinds of early! And what blows my mind the most is that some of my ancestors lived just miles away, walking distance away, from where I'd move to 300ish years later. I've been to the church where the one was baptized & later they'd be married before moving to upstate NY where they'd intersect again with other branches of the family, without knowing it, I'm sure. Plenty of others lived within short drive of where I was living... 40min to an hour away. I'd always vaguely known my family history to be German on my dad's side & my mom always said, "the family is English, Dutch, Welsh, & Scottish... maybe a little Irish too". (Still haven't proven that Irish or Welsh, though the DNA says it's there (the Irish apparently on both sides too!)) Turns out: - Southeastern, Northern, & Central Norway would be my 4th DNA community! I have strong ancestral roots from the border of Norway & Sweden as well as DNA commonly found amongst those of Danish ancestry. My Scandinavian ancestry is from both sides of my family too! I can trace to my 3rd great-grandparents on my father's strictly maternal line. I've yet to find where the DNA comes from on my mom's side. I do know what they're classifying as Norwegian comes solely from my dad's side. I never would have figured any of this out without the genetic communities giving me a direction to look into... or at least, it would have taken far longer & I probably would have learned so much less. Honestly, it unlocked so much that I struggle keeping it all straight. I had to consult my notes!
I find it interesting that she said the DNA communities was helpful. I guess if you don't know where your family comes from it could give a clue, but I haven't found it helpful at all. I came up as in the Central Italy community which is where my grandmother's parents came from and it was good to see that since my DNA shows 0% Italian, but does show islands near there. I also match with the Early PA settlers and PA with 3 other state settlers, but given I was born in PA and trace my ancestry to before the Revolutionary war as being in PA for the ancestry of 3 of my 4 grandparents, well, when I saw it I started laughing and my kids said, "where does it say you're from", I answered PA, and they were like, um you didn't need a test to know that. I had hoped that it might confirm regions in Europe more specifically than it did. But DNA matches have been great for other reasons, I found a 2nd cousin who I knew existed but didn't know where he lived, and matched a 7th cousin confirming an ancestor that was passed down in the tree but not well documented.
The communities are pretty much spot on for me, and whilst we'd all like things to be more specific but I wouldn't want that at the expense of accuracy. I see them as hints as to where you came from and where distant cousins migrated to that you match. If your ancestors have been in one place for the past few hundred years then sure this isn't going to help you, but I think it's more for people who haven't done that much work on their family tree yet.
It can be helpful too if you have a general idea of where your family is from but not specific enough to easily find the paper trail. For example, I know I have Irish ancestry, but I don't really know what part of Ireland my ancestors came from. My uncle's DNA communities, however, show some specific counties in Ireland. I haven't done the research yet on those lines before they came to America, but I'm guessing that information could come in handy once I get started.
@@mattpotter8725 yeah, my ancestors have lived within 4 counties of PA for depending on the branch 120-300+ years. and family stories said that throughout my life but I've traced alot of it. I suppose it justifies that to me PA is home, despite having moved out of the state 25 years ago.
I knew my ancestry pretty well... at least for 3-4 generations. The communities though proved to be the key to verifying suspicious ancestry, helping me trace many lines back 2-3-4 more generations, and figure out where to look for where certain folks belong in my tree. While my family stayed put for 4 generations on all those lines, the story of what happened before that is just as fascinating. You say your grandmother... but what about past her? What about the other side of your family? It may not be that helpful for right now, but with every update, check back. You just never know.
Thank you for covering Danielle Romero’s video. I love her, and the work she’s done with her family. Had not seen this video you covered. I spend a lot of time going over DNA videos because I’ve been studying this for awhile. I was adopted and luckily found both sides of my DNA family. I found that my bio father was Latino and his family came from Northern and west coast Mexico. So there’s a lot of interesting DNA heritage. Since I’m female I don’t have Y chromosome tracking ability. I’m not aware of many males on my fathers side that have DNA tested, but I have communicated with one cousin. My mothers side has a very detailed family tree and I’ve communicated with with some relatives. It’s been really interesting!!! Thank you for what you’re doing and communicating!! 😊
A HUGE detriment to using MyHeritage DNA to research your family lineage is their removal of a person's ability to view the "Genetic Groups" of their matches. Genetic communities/Groups from MyHeritage DNA/Ancestry DNA/and 23andMe I find to be one of the most exciting revelations of these testing companies.
Love watching your videos. I used a DNA test to show my sons how interesting and complex DNA can be. They were able to see how even though they are from the same parents, one may share DNA % with a 3rd or 4th cousin, while the other does not. Then we traced with paper trail Too see how they are related to said person.
It’s so great that you are teaching your children this! Hopefully, they will be the “family historians” in the next generation and things like this helps plant the seed to a possible interest.
I found my DNA results to be very accurate with what we know. I have a white American father and my mother has a Native American mother and mestizo Mexican father. I got 31% Native American. My European was primarily French, Scottish, and English. I got maternal haplogroup A2c, a Native American one. Made sense
I found my maternal haplogroup interesting, to say the least. It is the same as most of the Sami people. I have 6% Scandinavian (Sweden and Denmark) for my DNA so it fits. I have no one so far in my family tree that I can trace to that area. Maybe it goes back to the Scandinavians' invasion of the British Isles. I have verified ancestors from The Netherlands but Ancestry claims I have no DNA ancestors from there. I do get England and Northwestern Europe but the breakdown only gives England, Ireland and Scotland for the breakdown and the map also gives me the area of Calais in France.
Im going to ramble, but I’m so curious what your mt haplo is, could be the same - I have only trace ancestry percentages to that region, but I have a mt haplogroup from there. I know it’s from my Irish maternal line, but with my very mixed ancestry, the autosomal for Scandi or Finn region is so small that it doesn’t even show up the same on different company’s test (and sometimes only as broadly northern euro). It has changed with all the updates from Finland and Russia in the old ancestry results to now Norway or Sweden or “broad”. It so interesting that over time and different ancestries combining and making the next generation, so little from that region passed to me but I still have a “Scandinavian” haplogroup. Just like my children all have the same haplogroup as I, but none have any Scandi in their autosomal results
i hope youre well sir :) xo and i thought the thousand ancestors was funny, hehehh. ALSO, i wonder if you know this. myheritage says they make their base populations from getting people that have had family for 6 (or they said sometimes 15 ) generations in the same place. i know the ethnicity estimates are pretty bad for geaneology but i have heard you say you dont know how myheritage makes the estimates, so i thought you might be interested to know. (they said it on their website, by the way)
Do you, or anyone else, know why there are communities in the By Parent tab in your Matches in AncestryDNA than are included in your Ethnicity Estimate? I'm currently researching an ancestor from Connacht, Ireland and I have this community in my paternal side on the By Parent tab but it doesn't appear on the Ethnicity Estimate and so won't show this matching community on the Ethnicity tab in the match's ethnicity tab if they also had this community, which I think can be very useful (I hope I explained that well enough). I would love to know. Are these communities actually different entities, calculated in different ways?
I'm confused by what you're saying. I can see my inheritance by parent but I can't view my communities, only my regions. Communities are different from regions. This might help... I hope. For example: my DNA test shows two regions (or ethnicities they test for), Norway as well as Sweden & Denmark, but I have one community (which is a group of people tied together by genetics and/or common experiences) & that's Southeast, Central, & Northern Norway (that encompasses a good chunk of Sweden too which makes sense given the history). I connect to this family tree via my paternal side & I know this because I've fleshed out my family tree that far back & so have dozens of others related to me as well as so many others who have ancestors from the same region who have a similar history. That shared history could be shared by multiple ethnicities they classify & test for & that's demonstrated when I look at my Upper Midwest Settlers community which has members from both sides of my family encompassing those of Scandinavian & Germanic ancestry. They immigrated from Europe in the same span of time & settled in the same regions in the Midwest & intermarried & did the same kinds of work as each other & developed a shared history. Your DNA, family tree, & the family trees of your DNA matches help figure out your Communities.
@@Chaotic_Pixie I'll try to be a bit more clear. When I go into my Ethnicity Estimates it lists the countries or regions with countries beneath them and what look like, and are named like some of the communities. It only gives percentages for the higher up regions, but that's ok. That is what I one type of community, list A I will call this. Now if you go into your matches you get a number of tabs you can click on - All Matches, By Parent, By Ancestor (where the ThruLines can be found when you click on an ancestor), and I forget what the last one is, maybe By Location (where you can look at matches displayed on a map). In here on the By Parent tab if gives you a list of common surnames for each parent and communities for you Paternal and Maternal since of your family (or Parent 1 and Parent 2 if you haven't yet assigned this). Here I see a few of the communities that were on the Ethnicity Estimate breakdown page, but there are quite a few more, for me at least, that don't appear on the Ethnicity Estimate breakdown. These also don't appear on the middle tab when you go into a match page if both of you have communities in common (where you have 3 tab, the first with the tree, if there is a public linked one, surnames, and a map, the middle one with the Ethnicity Estimate of you and the match, the last one showing the Shared Matches above 20cM). On the match's Ethnicity Estimate comparison of you scroll down under the infographic if you have matching communities they are shown here. It's quite useful if you have a match that have any shared matches you recognise or non at all, so it's quite useful to use which side Ancestry this the match is on and a community to further narrow down where this match might be placed and where to start investigating, if you decide it's an interesting match. Sometimes these also have trees, but it's not obvious where in their tree you might have the common ancestor. I hope that's a bit clearer. I'm currently investigating my 2x great grandfather, and again because he's quite distant, but comes from a region no one else in my family tree does this would be quite useful to see, but I don't have Connacht, Ireland in my Ethnicity Estimate, but it is on my paternal communities. It might be that your communities are simpler and yours match up, but I have I think 4 on my Ethnicity Estimate but about 8 on my By Parent match page.
@@Chaotic_Pixie I've just reread your comment and whilst you're right, I think that you have regions only on the Ethnicity Estimate, and Communities are a different entity altogether that are related to your matches. So this actually changes what I'm asking in a way, and it may just be a technical glitch, but I've been working with a match who has given me access to her test results so I can see her matches, and she has Connacht, Ireland as a community, she's from there, and on other matches she has many have on the Ethnicity comparison tab on the match page at the bottom of the page where it lasts the common communities I often see Connacht, but on my match page with her I don't see this, even though we both have this community and it's been bugging me for a while now, and I just don't get how this is possible.
@@mattpotter8725 so, when I click a community, I can see which of my relationships are also in that community via a shared ancestor. Have you identified your shared ancestor with this person? Could this be why she’s not showing for your results under that community?
@@mattpotter8725 also, the regions give percentages. Those are all that’s being DNA tested for. Your communities are based more on history & familial information. I have relatives who live in California but none of my communities are in California because none of my direct ancestors nor a majority of my family have ever lived there long term. (Just my grandpa during his service days & now the descendants of his aunt who live out there.) You’re never going to get percentage breakdowns for communities. That’s not a thing. That’s not something being tested for. The communities show a historical trend for a significant number of your relatives/direct line ancestors.
I stopped subscribing to her because she felt DNA and/or the autosomal percentages weren't really accurate. Just because it changed, doesn't mean it was wrong to begin with.
Just me here taking notes on how to use the haplogroup information, wow😯 ETA: I talked about the actual DNA breakdown in this video a bit ruclips.net/video/1a57IIFyPmA/видео.html
I am a big fan of yours. I love your videos, Danielle. Hope to someday meet you.
Glad he could explain to you the advantage of FTDNA mt tests and matches, much better than I could myself. ^__^
They are currently on sale for the end of the year festivities, maybe you could buy one and have collaborative videos together. ^__^
The genetic communities are a seriously underrated and overlooked tool I swear. I am a Black American with roots in Maryland, Virginia, and both the Carolinas. My ethnicity estimates were pretty generic: primarily West and Central African with some Northern European (80% and 20% respectively). However, my genetic communities were quite interesting. I got 4 African American genetic communities and the two that stuck out to me the most were:
Coastal Carolina African Americans
Early South Carolina African Americans.
I learned a lot about these two genetic communities. But to keep it short, the historical timeline of both these communities line up with the history of the Gullah Geechee people of the coastal Carolinas and Georgia. To say I was happy and fascinated to learn that I could have a genetic connection to this amazing group of black Americans is an understatement.
I have been in correspondence with her, she owes a lot of her success to Elizabeth Shown Mills and her books. Elizabeth is one of the forerunners of the genealogical evidence proponents
The genetic communities are interesting. My mum has 4 genetic communities 2 associated with her maternal side (Dorset & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall) and 2 with her paternal side (Asians in South Africa and Eastern China & Southeast Asia). My mum is half English (Dorset, Somerset and Devon) and half Mauritian Creole (Mozambican, Malagasy, Chinese and Indian). Before DNA testing we didn't know about my mum's Chinese ancestry, then when we met her cousins for the first time they confirmed that they have a Chinese great grandfather on their paternal grandmother's side. My mother's X chromosomes one is entirely British & Irish and the other almost entirely Chinese.
For myself I only have 1 community (Dorset & Somerset), nothing for the other 3/4 of my ancestry 🤷 I think largely due to lack of DNA matches from the areas and being 1 generation further removed. My dad for example 23andme assigned several Dutch areas, but me nothing. Also my mum Madagascar and China but not me. I got one group in Africa Shona & Nguni peoples that my mum has on 23andme.
Great reaction video!
The TLDR; just read the first paragraph and the last if the details don't matter.
The genetic communities are such a useful tool. I wish more folks talked about them. (Off-hand question if you read this: how weird is it to know you have say, Dutch ancestry or know you have family from Luxembourg for it to not show come in a community?) When I did my Ancestry test I expected to get something that said Great Lakes region or there abouts & would have considered that sufficient... but I was hoping for more. I ended up with four communities of significance! 3 of which were surprising.
- Upper Midwest Settlers which I expected, but there were 3 sub-groups below that. The overwhelming majority of my family have lived in the intersection of those 3 areas for the 4 generations before me & many of my cousins & second cousins still do. It was uncanny to realize
- Early Connecticut & New York Settlers, a group I wasn't expecting &
- Early New England Settlers, a group I was hoping for. When I first began fiddling on Ancestry when it was brand new, I found myself tying into family trees with early-American ties in Massachusetts on my dad's side. I did NOT expect that. I honestly didn't think those other trees were correct. What I *REALLY* didn't expect though, was that years later, I'd take a DNA test and find *BOTH* sides of my families tie to Early Settlers. That led me on a months long journey of digging... tracing parts of both my mom's family & my dad's family to the same areas of New England I would eventually move to as a teenager (having been born in the Midwest). Ancestors, direct line ancestors of a handful of branches on both sides of my family could have interacted, crossed paths, knew the same people for all I know they lived within such close proximity to each other! We're talking 4-5-6-7 generations back... decades before the Revolution kinds of early! And what blows my mind the most is that some of my ancestors lived just miles away, walking distance away, from where I'd move to 300ish years later. I've been to the church where the one was baptized & later they'd be married before moving to upstate NY where they'd intersect again with other branches of the family, without knowing it, I'm sure. Plenty of others lived within short drive of where I was living... 40min to an hour away.
I'd always vaguely known my family history to be German on my dad's side & my mom always said, "the family is English, Dutch, Welsh, & Scottish... maybe a little Irish too". (Still haven't proven that Irish or Welsh, though the DNA says it's there (the Irish apparently on both sides too!)) Turns out:
- Southeastern, Northern, & Central Norway would be my 4th DNA community! I have strong ancestral roots from the border of Norway & Sweden as well as DNA commonly found amongst those of Danish ancestry. My Scandinavian ancestry is from both sides of my family too! I can trace to my 3rd great-grandparents on my father's strictly maternal line. I've yet to find where the DNA comes from on my mom's side. I do know what they're classifying as Norwegian comes solely from my dad's side.
I never would have figured any of this out without the genetic communities giving me a direction to look into... or at least, it would have taken far longer & I probably would have learned so much less. Honestly, it unlocked so much that I struggle keeping it all straight. I had to consult my notes!
I find it interesting that she said the DNA communities was helpful. I guess if you don't know where your family comes from it could give a clue, but I haven't found it helpful at all. I came up as in the Central Italy community which is where my grandmother's parents came from and it was good to see that since my DNA shows 0% Italian, but does show islands near there. I also match with the Early PA settlers and PA with 3 other state settlers, but given I was born in PA and trace my ancestry to before the Revolutionary war as being in PA for the ancestry of 3 of my 4 grandparents, well, when I saw it I started laughing and my kids said, "where does it say you're from", I answered PA, and they were like, um you didn't need a test to know that. I had hoped that it might confirm regions in Europe more specifically than it did. But DNA matches have been great for other reasons, I found a 2nd cousin who I knew existed but didn't know where he lived, and matched a 7th cousin confirming an ancestor that was passed down in the tree but not well documented.
The communities are pretty much spot on for me, and whilst we'd all like things to be more specific but I wouldn't want that at the expense of accuracy. I see them as hints as to where you came from and where distant cousins migrated to that you match. If your ancestors have been in one place for the past few hundred years then sure this isn't going to help you, but I think it's more for people who haven't done that much work on their family tree yet.
It can be helpful too if you have a general idea of where your family is from but not specific enough to easily find the paper trail. For example, I know I have Irish ancestry, but I don't really know what part of Ireland my ancestors came from. My uncle's DNA communities, however, show some specific counties in Ireland. I haven't done the research yet on those lines before they came to America, but I'm guessing that information could come in handy once I get started.
@@ParksLover thanks. then, It might be helpful then looking at my Italian ancestry, though the language is a bigger barrier than the location for me.
@@mattpotter8725 yeah, my ancestors have lived within 4 counties of PA for depending on the branch 120-300+ years. and family stories said that throughout my life but I've traced alot of it. I suppose it justifies that to me PA is home, despite having moved out of the state 25 years ago.
I knew my ancestry pretty well... at least for 3-4 generations. The communities though proved to be the key to verifying suspicious ancestry, helping me trace many lines back 2-3-4 more generations, and figure out where to look for where certain folks belong in my tree. While my family stayed put for 4 generations on all those lines, the story of what happened before that is just as fascinating. You say your grandmother... but what about past her? What about the other side of your family? It may not be that helpful for right now, but with every update, check back. You just never know.
The genetic communities is useful, and if curiosity is sparked in the person, they have a direction in which to explore further.
Thank you for covering Danielle Romero’s video. I love her, and the work she’s done with her family. Had not seen this video you covered. I spend a lot of time going over DNA videos because I’ve been studying this for awhile. I was adopted and luckily found both sides of my DNA family. I found that my bio father was Latino and his family came from Northern and west coast Mexico. So there’s a lot of interesting DNA heritage. Since I’m female I don’t have Y chromosome tracking ability. I’m not aware of many males on my fathers side that have DNA tested, but I have communicated with one cousin. My mothers side has a very detailed family tree and I’ve communicated with with some relatives. It’s been really interesting!!! Thank you for what you’re doing and communicating!! 😊
A HUGE detriment to using MyHeritage DNA to research your family lineage is their removal of a person's ability to view the "Genetic Groups" of their matches. Genetic communities/Groups from MyHeritage DNA/Ancestry DNA/and 23andMe I find to be one of the most exciting revelations of these testing companies.
Love watching your videos. I used a DNA test to show my sons how interesting and complex DNA can be. They were able to see how even though they are from the same parents, one may share DNA % with a 3rd or 4th cousin, while the other does not. Then we traced with paper trail Too see how they are related to said person.
It’s so great that you are teaching your children this! Hopefully, they will be the “family historians” in the next generation and things like this helps plant the seed to a possible interest.
Why didn’t we get to see - even the general breakdown of her story - that she wondered for so long ?
I found my DNA results to be very accurate with what we know. I have a white American father and my mother has a Native American mother and mestizo Mexican father. I got 31% Native American. My European was primarily French, Scottish, and English. I got maternal haplogroup A2c, a Native American one. Made sense
So what did her dna test show ?
How much Irish - how much European - how much African ? I didn’t my see much about find her story & hidden heritage
I have done both autosomal and mitochondrial dna tests. I'm glad I did. It's really worth it.
About 20k relatives, but under 30 close cousins
I found my maternal haplogroup interesting, to say the least. It is the same as most of the Sami people. I have 6% Scandinavian (Sweden and Denmark) for my DNA so it fits. I have no one so far in my family tree that I can trace to that area. Maybe it goes back to the Scandinavians' invasion of the British Isles. I have verified ancestors from The Netherlands but Ancestry claims I have no DNA ancestors from there. I do get England and Northwestern Europe but the breakdown only gives England, Ireland and Scotland for the breakdown and the map also gives me the area of Calais in France.
Im going to ramble, but I’m so curious what your mt haplo is, could be the same - I have only trace ancestry percentages to that region, but I have a mt haplogroup from there. I know it’s from my Irish maternal line, but with my very mixed ancestry, the autosomal for Scandi or Finn region is so small that it doesn’t even show up the same on different company’s test (and sometimes only as broadly northern euro). It has changed with all the updates from Finland and Russia in the old ancestry results to now Norway or Sweden or “broad”. It so interesting that over time and different ancestries combining and making the next generation, so little from that region passed to me but I still have a “Scandinavian” haplogroup. Just like my children all have the same haplogroup as I, but none have any Scandi in their autosomal results
I like your channel and your content. Danielle Romero is a cousin of mines. We share N A ancestors.
3:46 This was great! Corny and brilliant all at the same time. 👍🏾
i hope youre well sir :) xo and i thought the thousand ancestors was funny, hehehh. ALSO, i wonder if you know this. myheritage says they make their base populations from getting people that have had family for 6 (or they said sometimes 15 ) generations in the same place. i know the ethnicity estimates are pretty bad for geaneology but i have heard you say you dont know how myheritage makes the estimates, so i thought you might be interested to know. (they said it on their website, by the way)
I want to trace my paternal grandmothers mt dna, as I understand I can do this with my dads dna testing, is this correct?
Do you, or anyone else, know why there are communities in the By Parent tab in your Matches in AncestryDNA than are included in your Ethnicity Estimate? I'm currently researching an ancestor from Connacht, Ireland and I have this community in my paternal side on the By Parent tab but it doesn't appear on the Ethnicity Estimate and so won't show this matching community on the Ethnicity tab in the match's ethnicity tab if they also had this community, which I think can be very useful (I hope I explained that well enough). I would love to know. Are these communities actually different entities, calculated in different ways?
I'm confused by what you're saying. I can see my inheritance by parent but I can't view my communities, only my regions. Communities are different from regions. This might help... I hope.
For example: my DNA test shows two regions (or ethnicities they test for), Norway as well as Sweden & Denmark, but I have one community (which is a group of people tied together by genetics and/or common experiences) & that's Southeast, Central, & Northern Norway (that encompasses a good chunk of Sweden too which makes sense given the history). I connect to this family tree via my paternal side & I know this because I've fleshed out my family tree that far back & so have dozens of others related to me as well as so many others who have ancestors from the same region who have a similar history. That shared history could be shared by multiple ethnicities they classify & test for & that's demonstrated when I look at my Upper Midwest Settlers community which has members from both sides of my family encompassing those of Scandinavian & Germanic ancestry. They immigrated from Europe in the same span of time & settled in the same regions in the Midwest & intermarried & did the same kinds of work as each other & developed a shared history. Your DNA, family tree, & the family trees of your DNA matches help figure out your Communities.
@@Chaotic_Pixie I'll try to be a bit more clear. When I go into my Ethnicity Estimates it lists the countries or regions with countries beneath them and what look like, and are named like some of the communities. It only gives percentages for the higher up regions, but that's ok. That is what I one type of community, list A I will call this.
Now if you go into your matches you get a number of tabs you can click on - All Matches, By Parent, By Ancestor (where the ThruLines can be found when you click on an ancestor), and I forget what the last one is, maybe By Location (where you can look at matches displayed on a map). In here on the By Parent tab if gives you a list of common surnames for each parent and communities for you Paternal and Maternal since of your family (or Parent 1 and Parent 2 if you haven't yet assigned this). Here I see a few of the communities that were on the Ethnicity Estimate breakdown page, but there are quite a few more, for me at least, that don't appear on the Ethnicity Estimate breakdown.
These also don't appear on the middle tab when you go into a match page if both of you have communities in common (where you have 3 tab, the first with the tree, if there is a public linked one, surnames, and a map, the middle one with the Ethnicity Estimate of you and the match, the last one showing the Shared Matches above 20cM). On the match's Ethnicity Estimate comparison of you scroll down under the infographic if you have matching communities they are shown here.
It's quite useful if you have a match that have any shared matches you recognise or non at all, so it's quite useful to use which side Ancestry this the match is on and a community to further narrow down where this match might be placed and where to start investigating, if you decide it's an interesting match. Sometimes these also have trees, but it's not obvious where in their tree you might have the common ancestor.
I hope that's a bit clearer. I'm currently investigating my 2x great grandfather, and again because he's quite distant, but comes from a region no one else in my family tree does this would be quite useful to see, but I don't have Connacht, Ireland in my Ethnicity Estimate, but it is on my paternal communities. It might be that your communities are simpler and yours match up, but I have I think 4 on my Ethnicity Estimate but about 8 on my By Parent match page.
@@Chaotic_Pixie I've just reread your comment and whilst you're right, I think that you have regions only on the Ethnicity Estimate, and Communities are a different entity altogether that are related to your matches. So this actually changes what I'm asking in a way, and it may just be a technical glitch, but I've been working with a match who has given me access to her test results so I can see her matches, and she has Connacht, Ireland as a community, she's from there, and on other matches she has many have on the Ethnicity comparison tab on the match page at the bottom of the page where it lasts the common communities I often see Connacht, but on my match page with her I don't see this, even though we both have this community and it's been bugging me for a while now, and I just don't get how this is possible.
@@mattpotter8725 so, when I click a community, I can see which of my relationships are also in that community via a shared ancestor. Have you identified your shared ancestor with this person? Could this be why she’s not showing for your results under that community?
@@mattpotter8725 also, the regions give percentages. Those are all that’s being DNA tested for. Your communities are based more on history & familial information. I have relatives who live in California but none of my communities are in California because none of my direct ancestors nor a majority of my family have ever lived there long term. (Just my grandpa during his service days & now the descendants of his aunt who live out there.)
You’re never going to get percentage breakdowns for communities. That’s not a thing. That’s not something being tested for. The communities show a historical trend for a significant number of your relatives/direct line ancestors.
I live in Louisiana. My mom was adopted from Lafayette (we think), and I really should start my search.. Where should I start?
See if you can get her birth certificate - ldh.la.gov/page/adoptee-preadoption-certificate
I stopped subscribing to her because she felt DNA and/or the autosomal percentages weren't really accurate. Just because it changed, doesn't mean it was wrong to begin with.
Give her a chance. She’s learning. Plus, she went to the best for Help, Genealogist, Elizabeth Shown Mills.
She was right. Ancestry sucks. The others are better
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