Ancestry Dna Matches Map

Ancestrydna can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of dna matches.

Ancestry dna matches map.

To see your shared ethnicity click the ethnicity tab from the match s profile page. Near the top of the page click map. Your ancestrydna results include information about your geographic origins across 1 000 regions and identifies potential relatives through dna matching to others who have taken the ancestrydna test. A new tool has appeared to help you sort your ancestrydna matches.

Your map of dna matches shows locations of your 4th cousin matches and closer who have added locations. Compare your dna results to your matches dna results. To further improve your matches ancestry will compare the people contained within your family tree and the people in your match s tree. Since ancestry dna and any other company can t really tell you how you are related to most of your dna matches they have to use the amount of shared dna in order to estimate your relationship.

Contacting your dna matches can also help you discover how you re related to them. When you click on the matches map you. Click on a match to compare your dna with that match and see which regions and dna matches you share. Say you re person a and you match person b.

With that in mind then it is a good idea for you to link your dna test results to your family tree. Ancestry dna will compare your dna test results with other ancestry members. You can find it on your dna results summary page along the top menu bar shown below. A shared match hint chart showing the common ancestors at the top with each members relative that leads to the member.

You match person b because your dad is first cousins with b s mom and you match person c because your. This is assumed to be a dna match. A dna match without a hint chart just a list of names that are in each members tree and at the top a list of shared last names. There are now 3 scenarios ancestry can generate.

You and b have a shared match person c. Note that just because you and another person have a shared match doesn t mean that all three of you have the same segment of dna that is to say you all don t necessarily have the same ancestor. The matches maps display points for matches who have opted in to matching and who have entered a location fo their direct paternal and or direct maternal earliest known ancestors. Ancestrydna compares your dna to the dna of every other person in our database to determine who you might be related to and how.

At a 4th cousin level the range of average shared dna overlaps with that of other relationships. Check out these help articles and charts to see how we find your dna matches and how you can use them to help your family history research. Click a pin on the map to see details. Zoom in on an area by clicking a numbered pin or the zoom button.

In order for a match to display on the y dna matches maps the match must have their direct paternal earliest known ancestor s location entered on their account settings genealogy earliest known ancestors page.