The reference panels or populations that inform your DNA ethnicity reports for family history ALSO affect variations in those reports. Here’s what you want to know about this! This is the fourth in a series of detailed articles on understanding DNA ethnicity by Jayne...
This new article series by genetic genealogist Jayne Ekins deep-dives into DNA ethnicity estimates and explains why they vary so widely. Were you the victim of an ethnicity overhaul when AncestryDNA updated their process in 2018? Perhaps you’ve tested with different...
DNA testing companies have been hard at work, re-calibrating our ethnicity estimates based on newer and better data. DNA ethnicity results—those pretty pie charts and percentages—are based on fancy math and reference populations. The initial reference...
Transferring your DNA data to another genetic genealogy website is like getting a second opinion: it’s generally a good idea. Get a second opinion. That’s the advice we hear about our healthcare (and the tactic my kids use when one parent says “no”). But it should...
DNA ethnicity results are popular with test-takers. Living DNA charts your ancestral locations over time, so you see where your ancestors were from at different points deep in human history. Where did I come from? This is a fundamental human question, and it is...
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