Ancestry Genetic Communities Changed

[Grace O'Malley]

I believe these genetic communities are favorable for Irish-Americans because so many of them take these DNA tests. It's like a relatively small country getting a huge sample size. I think it is a good thing because you can get super refined genetic regions in Irelands.

I've wondered about the 23&Me results also. I just found it odd that I got just likely for my results while many Americans are getting very likely even though they are more removed i.e. their Irish is further back. It might not be the case but it did make me wonder.

[hazmatnik]

Mine didn't change. Its pretty due for rework. Especially when i see who score Croatia and Western Balkans. Nonsense.

[Daco Celtic]

I've wondered about the 23&Me results also. I just found it odd that I got just likely for my results while many Americans are getting very likely even though they are more removed i.e. their Irish is further back. It might not be the case but it did make me wonder.

I could see countries like Australia or Canada having equal or greater amounts of commercial genetic testing proportionally compared to the US, it's just that the American population is so much larger plus easy access to all genetic tests here skew the results.

[jelliedsoup]

I gave up a long time ago on Ancestry's communities, I tested about 7 years ago and they've never altered.

Had my parents tested about 2 years ago, and neither of theirs were included in mine.

[calxpal]

I'm anxiously awaiting to see if Ancestry will assign me UK or Ukraine communities, since I only have 1 community I would be super happy if they could assign me a few more in an update.