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This week, I wrote a post explaining how to turn off DNA matching on Ancestry. This got me thinking about the many different reasons that people do DNA tests.
As you might know, the most common reason people get into DNA testing is to get an "ethnicity estimate". For this week's newsletter, I decided to include some informative posts about these popular estimates:
If you have done a DNA test, or you are thinking about doing a DNA test, there is something you should know. Your ethnicity estimate, no matter which company you decide to test with, will not exactly match your family tree.
Do you want to know how to turn off DNA matches on Ancestry? Is it possible to hide your DNA results? In this post, you will learn the answer to these two questions, and more!
You have figured out that it’s normal for siblings to show different ethnicity percentages, but now you want to understand why. In this post, I will explain how this happens, and why it’s actually a huge benefit to you that your sibling has DNA that doesn’t match yours.
Did you get 1% of an unexpected region in your DNA results? Maybe your ethnicity estimate shows 1% Irish, 1% European Jewish, 1% Bantu, or 1% North African DNA. You might be tempted to brush off these “trace” amounts of DNA from a particular region as statistical noise, but should you?
Ethnicity estimates are delivered to us in an easy-to-understand and visually appealing manner. They are easy to print out, summarize, and share with family or on social media – what’s not to love about them? We know they are popular and sought after, but what can we learn from our ethnicity estimates?
