AncestryDNA Communities Update

[rothaer]

North Slavic?
Small groups of Croats in the Middle Ages came from Poland to the Balkans and integrated with the local population, who was give slavic language.
Nothing surprising in these results.

At AncestryDNA regions and genetic communities are determined by IBD segments. Therefore these things are also sometimes referred to as "recent ancestry". Any commonalities from the middle ages you refer to (will have been before 1000 AD) will have been fragmented too much for today yielding IBD segments that are judged to be recent ancestry. Actually it's even about matches that you have in your AncestryDNA matching list. Regularly 3 of them are shown as examples for your connection with a particular region (if you click on it). In a number of north Slavic regions there are in the case of Stearsolina just shown 2, 1 or even zero matches. This is what seems buggish to me. But there will be an answer from AncestryDNA on this topic within a few days.

[Leto]

Stearsolinas results (was asked to post them):

Stears' results (posted on behalf of Stearsolina):

Why the fuck did she ask to be banned only to ask other people to post on her behalf a day later? Sounds crazy to me.
She's gonna be back in a few days anyway. I'll be damned if she isn't.

[Creoda]

I only get one 1 genetic community:

- Devon & Cornwall, England

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My mother gets 3 genetic communities:

- Devon & Cornwall, England
- Central & Southwest Germany
- Ohio, Indiana, and Eastern Kentucky Settlers

Why AncestryDNA can only find England, and not a German community for me is mind-boggling. And still nothing for my Hungarian side..

I'd guess it's because the English communities have more people in them and so are easier to find matches than for the smaller German communities - Ancestry is more popular in Britain than in Continental Europe, where MyHeritage dominates.

Numbers of people in my Genetic communities:

The Midlands, England - 436,065 AncestryDNA members
Leinster, Ireland - 301,302 AncestryDNA members
Central Ireland - 368,702 AncestryDNA members

[rothaer]

Why the fuck did she ask to be banned only to ask other people to post on her behalf a day later? Sounds crazy to me.

Still a gain of time compared to being non stop at TA?

[Nomadian90']

At AncestryDNA regions and genetic communities are determined by IBD segments. Therefore these things are also sometimes referred to as "recent ancestry". Any commonalities from the middle ages you refer to (will have been before 1000 AD) will have been fragmented too much for today yielding IBD segments that are judged to be recent ancestry. Actually it's even about matches that you have in your AncestryDNA matching list. Regularly 3 of them are shown as examples for your connection with a particular region (if you click on it). In a number of north Slavic regions there are in the case of Stearsolina just shown 2, 1 or even zero matches. This is what seems buggish to me. But there will be an answer from AncestryDNA on this topic within a few days.

If so, ok.
I see that not only genealogy but even genetic results sometimes can raise questions.

[Peterski]

Previously I had:

- Pomerania

Now I have:

- West Central Poland
- Greater Poland
- Northern Greater Poland
- Lodz Province & Surrounding Area
- Central & Northeast Poland
- Central Poland

IMO, there is too much overlap between these communities in terms of the areas they cover.

[Gergő Marosvári]

where is your pca plot in your signiture thing from? No way western slovaks are that seperate from central ones genetically. From what ive seen western slovaks are pretty much indistinguishable from central ones and distant from czechs as a whole with the exception of moravia.

It is from Lukasz Macuga's Eurogenes K36 report.

[rothaer]

Previously I had:

- Pomerania

Now I have:

- West Central Poland
- Greater Poland
- Northern Greater Poland
- Lodz Province & Surrounding Area
- Central & Northeast Poland
- Central Poland

IMO, there is too much overlap between these communities in terms of the areas they cover.

Looks like "Pomerania" was dissolved then.

Could you have a look for if there are shown three examples of matches (and not less) that you do share the particular regions with?

[Peterski]

Could you have a look for if there are shown three examples of matches (and not less) that you do share the particular regions with?

Yes there are 3 examples.

One of them is my 2nd cousin, it turns out we share very recent ancestors (my great-grandparents appear in her family tree).

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BTW this is the extend of their "Northern Greater Poland" community:

[rothaer]

Yes there are 3 examples.

One of them is my 2nd cousin, it turns out we share very recent ancestors (my great-grandparents appear in her family tree).

Okay, thanks.