"Exciting news there are more than 120 new Canadian communities that have been
added to the AncestryDNA product, offering greater insights about British
Canadian and French Canadian settlers.
One of many
innovations available to customers as part of the AncestryDNA test, communities
take your DNA story one step further, connecting you to the places and people
that have shaped your personal family history.
The new
updated Canadian communities are part of a wider global update to AncestryDNA
of over 225 new communities to help our members who have ties to France,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, empowering them to
unlock even more discoveries about their family history.
AncestryDNA
ethnicity results are based on 1000 years of migration within a user’s DNA and
are broken down into regions across the world. Ancestry’s Genetic Communities™ technology is based on
macro-international analysis, used to discover specific groups of people that a
user is genetically connected to, the places that those ancestors called home
and the migration paths they followed.
Communities
are particularly valuable for family historians as they can be cross referenced
with Ancestry’s historical records to provide even more detail such as
ancestral home addresses, schools their ancestors attended and even their place
of work – helping to paint a full picture of the connection a user may have to
that specific area and community.
The new
communities will automatically be added to the results of existing AncestryDNA
customers. These will not change the ethnicity estimate of users.
The
advancements have been made possible by the combination of Ancestry’s
industry-leading 15 million DNA users, new analysis techniques developed by
Ancestry’s DNA team and the world’s largest online collection of family history
records and trees at www.ancestry.ca"
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