 MyHeritage Updates March 2024: Share DNA Results with a Collaborator! You can now share your DNA results with collaborators at MyHeritage! MyHeritage has now added the much-needed option to seek advice and guidance from others, by securely sharing your DNA results with a collaborator. By inviting others to view your DNA results, and become a member of your family site on MyHeritage, collaboration has never been easier! Benefits to DNA Collaboration at MyHeritage
Who Can Collaborate with MyHeritage DNA Results
Learn more: New: Sharing DNA Results with a Collaborator More MyHeritage and Other Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more MyHeritage and other family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.
 Ancestry Updates February 2024: AncestryDNA’s New, DNA Tools & Features, Paywall Ancestry has been slowly rolling over everyone, for quite a while now, who does not have a paid subscription to Ancestry or AncestryDNA to new, basic AncestryDNA features, now included with their DNA kits. Since it was little by little at the beginning, not all had noticed. They have now, officially, moved the majority of FREE DNA tools and features behind a paywall, making many quite unhappy. Just what can you get with the purchase of an AncestryDNA kit, now? What has moved over to their new, AncestryDNA Plus paywall, for those that had purchased their kits in the past? See the breakdown of just what’s behind this new paywall, below. Now ONLY Included with AncestryDNA Test Kit
Now Included ONLY with AncestryDNA Plus Membership
Now Included ONLY with Ancestry Family History Membership
And according to Ancestry, any that are associated with family trees or traits are subject to change and may require an Ancestry membership in the future. Food for thought (concerning both sides)
More Ancestry and Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry updates, tips, tools, and features and other family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page
 Ancestry's New AI Family Tree and DNA Features Ancestry's New AI Features for Your Family Tree and DNA Ancestry seems to be on a major roll right now, consistently churning out new features one on top of the other! They have just released 2 new AI features to enhance your family history and genealogy, 1 for your family tree, and one for your DNA! These new features are in BETA mode, which means not all may have it; they could tweak it, add to it, delete some of the questions or features; or they may decide to delete it all together. AI to Enhance Your Ancestor’s StoryLearn about your ancestor in a fun, engaging, and educational way with the new AI feature for your family tree! With the new feature, you can learn about birth, marriage, death, and residence events during your ancestors’ lives. Categories and Questions:
AI Ancestor Birth Questions Samples
AI Ancestor Marriage Questions Samples
AI Ancestor Death Questions Samples
AI Ancestor Residence Questions Examples
How to get to AncestryAI for Your Ancestor
 How to Get to AncestryAI Feature for Your Family Tree *Note: Be careful using this info in a story, as some of the information is general for the area and not the specific period or vice versa. 😉 AI to Enhance Your DNA Story You can also learn about your estimated ethnic regions in a fun, engaging, and educational way with the new AI feature for your AncestryDNA! With this new feature, you can learn about daily life, common foods, notable historical figures, climate and geography, population movements, population, the people, and family life in each of your estimated ethnic regions! Categories and Questions:
How to Get to AncestryAI in AncestryDNA
 How to Get to AncestryDNA's AncestryAI Feature Go in and see if you have these 2 new AI features; if you do, then have fun with it! More Ancestry, AI, and Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry updates, tips, tools, and features; AI in genealogy, and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancestry.com, AI in Genealogy, and Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.   AncestryDNA New DNA Communities Story Feature & Updated DNA Story AncestryDNA New DNA Communities Story Feature & Updated DNA Story! Ancestry has been upgrading their DNA Story this past week with lots of new updates! As mentioned last week, in Ancestry DNA Updates: New DNA Community Record Collections Feature!, they added a new DNA records collections feature to DNA communities, along with new ethnicity updates, and have now revamped it with a new look, while adding animation, stories, and more! What’s New at AncestryDNA
New Background Color Toggle & Ethnicity Colors New AncestryDNA Background Color Toggle & Ethnicity Colors Example 1  New AncestryDNA Background Color Toggle & Ethnicity Colors Example 2 New Animated DNA Communities Maps & Timeline Stories New AncestryDNA Animated DNA Communities Maps Example  New AncestryDNA Timeline Communities Stories Example  New AncestryDNA Animated DNA Communities Maps & DNA Stories Example 1  New AncestryDNA Animated DNA Communities Maps & DNA Stories Example 2 More Ancestry, DNA, and Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry updates, tips, tools, and features and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancestry.com, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, and Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.   New Ancestry DNA Community Record Collections Feature! Ancestry Updates: DNA Community Record Collections Feature!Going into Ancestry the other day, I noticed that not only did Ancestry update DNA ethnicity estimates again but added a new feature in AncestryDNA as well, DNA Community Record Collections! Right now, by going through the long list of DNA that I manage, it seems to just be for African American and Irish communities. I’m sure many more will come soon, as I just noticed it on the 25th of July, and it was not there the day before! So, if you are a beginner and have African American or Irish ethnicity, along with DNA communities as part of your AncestryDNA results, you will have some cool helps to get you going on where to look! Did you know there are over 400 African American and Afro-Caribbean communities and 203 Irish communities for AncestryDNA members? I’m not sure all the communities for these 2 ethnicities are included in this new feature yet, but below you’ll find the ones that are included in the long list of DNA that I manage for family, friends, and clients. African American DNA Community Record Collections
Irish DNA Community Record Collections
How to Get to DNA Community Record Collections
 How to Get to Ancestry DNA Community Record Collections More Ancestry, DNA, and Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry updates, tips, tools, and features; DNA; and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancesty.com, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, and Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.
 MyHeritage Updates: New Theory of Family Relativity UpdateMyHeritage has been working behind the scenes and around the clock to bring you tons of state-of-the-art new updates, tools, and features! One of these is the newly updated Theory of Family Relativity, that just added millions of new theories to help you discover how you’re related to your DNA Matches! Theory of Family Relativity can save you painstaking hours of trying to figure out how you’re connected to your DNA matches, using their large database of their family trees and historical records that provide you with probable theories about how you and your DNA matches are related! This feature sets DNA tools at a whole new level! And, as an extra bonus, they’ve made improvements to their DNA section! New Theory of Family Relativity Update
How to get to Theory of Family RelativityRight now it is super easy to get to the MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity! Since they have an all new update for it, they have it advertised right in plain view under your DNA matches!  How to get to MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity-1 It won't be advertised as new forever, so the standard way to get to your Theory of Family Relativity theories is from your DNA match list filters, under the "Tree details" labeled filter. Your "Tree details" is already set by default; just go ahead and choose "Has Theory of Family Relativity".  How to get to MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity-2 How to View New TheoriesMyHeritage makes it super simple to view any theories that are new and not yet viewed! Just look for the "NEW" button right next to the Theory of Family Relativity symbol, under your match's info.  How to View the MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity New Theories How to View ALL TheoriesTo view ALL of your theories, whether new or previously viewed, just click on the highlighted "View theory" at the end of the theory summary next to the Theory of Family Relativity symbol.  How to View All MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity Theories Theory of Family Relativity ExampleThere may be just one or multiple paths that were taken to come up with your theories. The more paths you have, the stronger the reliability of the proposed relationship. The example below is a confirmed, by me, theory, which has 5 paths that were used to come up with the theory. You can toggle between the paths, to see the details of each.  Theory of Family Relativity Example Path 1  Theory of Family Relativity Example-Path 1 Path 2  Theory of Family Relativity Example-Path 2 Path 3  Theory of Family Relativity Example-Path 3 Path 4  Theory of Family Relativity Example-Path 4 Path 5  Theory of Family Relativity Example-Path 5 Confirming or Rejecting Your TheoryIt is very important to confirm or reject your theory. By doing so, it will not only keep you organized, but it will also help to fine tune the algorithm. Don't worry if you've made a mistake confirming it; you can always undo it. 😉  Confirming or Rejecting Your MyHeritage DNA Theory-1  Confirming or Rejecting Your MyHeritage DNA Theory-2 My Personal Experience with Theory of Family RelativityI've got to say, after checking out many of my known matches, they are ALL on point, which gives me hope for my unknown mathces! 😉 Something to think about
MyHeritage is hard at work and constantly bringing you tons of new records. Want even better state-of-the-art tools and features, spread the word about MyHeritage, their DNA kits, and their FREE DNA transfers, which all add to improving the tools! A larger database = Improved tools and technology! 😉 Go into MyHeritage now, and try it out! More MyHeritage, DNA, and other Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more MyHeritage features, DNA, and other family history and genealogy resources under the MyHeritage, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, Genealogy Resources categories and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.
 Ancestry's New Genetic Genealogy Feature and Tools, DNA Compare As mentioned in Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features, one of the new Ancestry updates includes a DNA compare feature/tool, where you can compare your ethnicity estimates and DNA communities with that of others. This is still in BETA mode, which means they may enhance it or tweak it a bit based on feedback. It also means not all may have it yet. How to Get to DNA CompareThere are a few ways to get to the new DNA Compare feature/tool, in which some are fairly the same; I guess they want to make it as easy as possible for you and don’t want you to miss it. 😉
 How to Get to Ancestry's DNA Compare Feature/Tool #1  How to Get to Ancestry's DNA Compare Feature/Tool #2  How to Get to Ancestry's DNA Compare Feature/Tool #3 All three of these will get you to your "DNA Story" page where you can click on either of the blue "Compare my DNA" buttons at the end of either the "Ethnicity estimate" section or the "DNA communities" section.   Ancestry's DNA Compare Tools
 Ancestry's DNA Compare: Ethnicity Estimates Tool
 Ancetry's DNA Compare: DNA Communities Tool With both DNA Compare Ethnicity Estimates and DNA Compare DNA Communities, you can choose up to 10 people from your matches or even from DNA tests shared with you, including friends! How to Add or Remove People to Compare or Choose a Tree
 Ancestry's DNA Compare Feature Icons Clicking on the “Add or remove” button enables a drop-down box that will allow you to select or remove people from the comparison tool.
You also have two quick options to add or remove a person you are currently comparing in the tool. There is a quick option drop-down (the 3 dots) next to each person you are currently comparing that allows you to quickly delete that person from the comparison and/or view that person, and there is a quick option to add another person, after the last person in the comparison tool, by clicking on the “+” button. There is also a drop-down box where you can choose any DNA test results shared with you and do the same. Once you choose who you want to compare with, you will not only see your ethnicity estimates or DNA communities but your match’s as well. It’s a fun feature, but I’m not quite sure how useful it is yet; I will have to play around with it a bit more. Of course, many people have the same ethnicity estimates on both sides of their families and in general. I think the DNA Compare DNA Communities feature is a little more useful, for me that is. Keep in mind that many families and lines have been in the same areas for generations. If your main two lines are of totally different ethnicities or there are recent immigrants, this will be a very useful tool! 😉 More Ancestry DNA Tools and Features Coming Soon
More Ancestry, DNA, and other Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry features, DNA, and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancestry.com, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, and Genealogy Resources categories and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page. Related Content: Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features MyHeritage Features: cM Explainer DNA Tool for Your Genetic Genealogy AncestryDNA New DNA Matches Split by Parent Feature! AncestryDNA’s Chromosome Painter Feature: A Closer Look into Your Ethnicity Inheritance! Ancestry’s New SideView Ethnicity Inheritance DNA Feature!   Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features There are lots of new updates from Ancestry this year! It’s just the beginning of the year, but Ancestry already has lots of new genealogy and DNA tools and features to enhance you family history experience! They also have quite a few more coming very soon, and I’m sure they’ll have more down the road this year! Check out some of these useful, timesaving, and fun updates below! Current Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features:
Ancestry 2023 New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features Coming Soon:
Stay tuned for details on each of these new genealogy and DNA tools and features, in the coming weeks, on how to get to them and what you can do with them! You can bookmark and revert back to this post that will include links as I blog about each one in detail, find them under the resources category of my blog as they become available, or just stay tuned if you follow my blog. Or explore them now on your own at Ancestry! 😉 Explore on your own here: Ancestry.com More Ancestry.com, DNA, and other Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more Ancestry features, DNA, and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancestry.com, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, and Genealogy Resources categories and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.   MyHeritage Features: cM Explainer DNA Tool for Your Genetic Genealogy MyHeritage has a FREE, new feature, announced at RootsTech, the cM Explainer DNA Tool! This newest genetic genealogy tool uses both centimorgans and ages to give better relationship probability predictions to your DNA matches! I was given a heads up about it and early access to test it out before it’s RootsTech unveiling and had posted it in social media right away, but I wanted to wait until I had time to fully check it out before I did a blog on it. About MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool:This newest genetic genealogy tool uses both centimorgans and ages to give better relationship probability predictions to your DNA matches! You can use it with your MyHeritage DNA matches or as a stand-alone DNA tool from any of your DNA matches at other companies! The DNA match tool gives a detailed prediction of the possible relationships with a DNA match, along with the probabilities of those relationships. It also determines your probable most recent common ancestor and gives a diagram breakdown of the relationships. The tool also puts your relationship into simple terms that everyone can understand, such as parent’s first cousin or first cousin’s child, instead of 1c or 1c1r. You can also filter the predictions by full or 1/2 relationships. This genetic genealogy feature is available for free to anyone who has their DNA results on MyHeritage and as a stand-alone DNA tool for anyone with a MyHeritage account, including their FREE basic account! How to Access MyHeritage DNA Explainer Tool:
 Step 1: How to Get to MyHeritage cM Explainer  Step 2: How to Get to MyHeritage cM Explainer  Step 3: How to Get to MyHeritage cM Explainer  Step 4: How to Get to MyHeritage cM Explainer  Step 5: How to Get to MyHeritage cM Explainer MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA TOOL Results and Comparisons:I tested out the MyHeritage cm Explainer DNA Tool with all my mom’s close category DNA matches, with and without ages, while also plugging them into the DNA Painter Shared cM Tool and using AncestryDNA’s built in Possible DNA Relationships tool, to compare results. Example 1:Below is an example of the shared centimorgans between my mom and one her 1/2 first cousins plugged into AncestryDNA's built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool, DNA Painter's Shared cM Project tool, and the new MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool for comparison. Here AncestryDNA's built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool puts my mom's 1/2 first cousin at a possible DNA relationship of 48%, along with many other possible relationships.  AncestryDNA built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool Here DNA Painter's shared cM Project Tool puts my mom's 1/2 first cousin at a probable DNA relationship of 63%, along with many other probable relationships.  DNA Painter Shared cM Project tool Here MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool puts my mom's 1/2 first cousin at a probable DNA relationship of 1st cousin's child or Parent's 1st cousin, a little off on the probable relationship on this one, but half first cousin is included as the 4th possible relationship in the possible relationships breakdown at 8.5%, along with a lot less possible relationships than the other 2. They also have the most recent common ancestor next to each relationship, to simplify it for you.  Example 1: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool, without ages Here is MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool Diagram breakdown of those possible relationships, to help those who visualize information better.  Example 1: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool breakdown Diagram, without ages Here MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool, with the optional added ages, now puts my mom's 1/2 first cousin at a probable DNA relationship of 1st cousin's child or 1st cousin, still a little off on the probable relationship on this one, but half first cousin is now included in the more fine-tuned possible relationships at 22.8%, along with a lot less possible relationships than the other 2, an overall very good prediction.  Example 1: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool, with ages Here is MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool Diagram breakdown of those now possible relationships, with the optional ages included, to help those who visualize information better.  Example 1: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool breakdown Diagram, with ages Example 2:Below is an example of the shared centimorgans between my mom and her 1/2 niece plugged into AncestryDNA's built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool, DNA Painter's Shared cM Project tool, and the new MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool for comparison. Here AncestryDNA's built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool puts my mom's 1/2 niece at a possible DNA relationship of 99%, along with many other possible relationships.  Example 2: AncestryDNA built-in Possible DNA Relationships tool Here DNA Painter's shared cM Project Tool puts my mom's 1/2 niece at a probable DNA relationship of 98%, along with many other probable relationships.  Example 2: DNA Painter Shared cM Project tool Here MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool puts my mom's 1/2 niece at a probable DNA relationship of 1st cousin, a little off on the probable relationship on this one, but half niece is included as the second possible relationship in the possible relationships breakdown at 11.2%, along with a lot less possible relationships than the other 2. They also have the most recent common ancestor next to each relationship, to simplify it for you.  Example 2: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool, without ages Here MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool, with the optional added ages, now puts my mom's 1/2 niece at only one probable DNA relationship of 1/2 niece, right on target with the exact relationship probability! This was so fine-tuned that it narrowed it down to only four possible relationships at all for the shared centimorgans, along with the possible ages, making this a suberb prediction!  Example 2: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool, with ages Here is MyHeritage's cM Explainer DNA Tool Diagram breakdown of those now possible relationships, with the optional ages included, to help those who visualize information better.  Example 2: MyHeritage cM Explainer DNA Tool breakdown Diagram, with ages Conclusion:These are just 2 examples of all of the close matches I tested out. It is a hit or miss with the probable relationship, but ALL the relationships did show up in the possible relationships section, as being one of the possible relationships. Most of the probable relationships were off due to endogamy, pedigree collapse, and very unusual age ranges between some generations, so of course that makes the prediction very difficult, but it is an overall great predictor of DNA match relationships that puts everything in simple terms that anyone can understand, while narrowing down those match relationships significantly.
You can try out this new DNA tool by signing up for a MyHeritage FREE 14-day trial, their FREE Basic Site, one of their Premium Family Site plans, a Data plan, or a Complete plan here: MyHeritage More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more MyHeritage features and other family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.  MyHeritage Family History and Genealogy, DNA, and Photo Features and Tools MyHeritage: Family History and Genetic Genealogy Features and ToolsMyHeritage has tons of family history and genealogy, genetic genealogy/DNA, and photo tools and features for your family tree! Way more than meets the eye! When I first started my genealogy journey back in 2010, I started with Ancestry.com, as it was all I knew at the time, and they had that free 14-day trial, in which I took full advantage of during my spring break from work. I remember spending about 16 hours or so each day to get my free money’s worth, while giving my kids (teenagers at the time who drove) money each day to pick up anything they’d like for the family dinner that evening. I was glued to that computer! Then in 2012 when DNA tests were being offered, I was right on board! I’ve only been with MyHeritage for about 5 years now, as before 2018, I hadn’t heard much about it. In 2018, they were offering a free transfer of DNA from other companies, in which I think it was to spread the word of their DNA testing added just a couple of years before, while hoping to build a larger database of matches. Of course, I can’t pass up free, so I uploaded my, my mom’s, and my paternal Uncle’s DNA! Like most, I simply looked at the ethnicity to compare with my other results at AncestryDNA (mine and my mom’s); Family Tree DNA (mine and my uncle’s); and 23andMe (mine), while also quickly looking through the matches. At the time, as they were still just building up their match database, I didn’t seem to have a lot of interesting matches, and they were all distant at the time. As I already have my tree that I had been working on for well over a decade, that is as far as I went with MyHeritage at the time. One day, when I went back in to see if there were any new matches that were closer, I decided to check out MyHeritage and some of their features. I did not have a paid account yet, but saw that they had tons of features for FREE! FREE Features and Tools on MyHeritage:
Since then, when winning a free subscription to MyHeritage for a year, a couple of years back, I have discovered more of the features that MyHeritage has to offer, and I am still discovering them! They just have so much to offer! All Features and Tools on MyHeritageWell, the ones I know of so far 😉 1. MyHeritage DNA Features:
2. MyHeritage Family Tree Features:
3. MyHeritage Photo Features:
4. MyHeritage Research Features:
5. MyHeritage Heirloom Family Tree Charts: All pintable
6. MyHeritage Heirloom Family Tree Books: Printable 7. Education:
I’m not sure if I missed anything, but with the very limited time I have, I have quickly checked out all of these features in the last couple of years. Whenever I have free time, I go in to spend more time checking out a certain feature, while definitely enjoying it. So far, I’ve come to the conclusion that MyHeritage has the most features thus far. Some have proven to be quite useful and some make researching your family history a lot more fun! Stay tuned for more as I check out all the features in detail, little by little. For now, click on any of the links in the features to learn more about that feature. You can try out all of these features and tools by signing up for a MyHeritage FREE 14-day trial, their FREE Basic Site, one of their Premium Family Site plans, a Data plan, or a Complete plan here: MyHeritage More MyHeritage, DNA, and other Genealogy ResourcesLearn about more MyHeritage features, DNA, and other family history and genealogy resources under the MyHeritage, Genetic Genealogy and DNA, and Genealogy Resources categories and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.
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