

Fantastic Response to MyHeritage’s New Genetic Groups
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by Esther ·
- January 14, 2021
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Three weeks ago, we announced exciting news — the release of Genetic Groups. This long-awaited enhancement to MyHeritage DNA ethnicity estimates identifies ancestral origins with an incredibly high resolution of 2,114 geographic regions. It was one of the major features released in 2020, and the product of three years of work by our teams.
Since the release, response from the genealogy community and MyHeritage DNA users around the world has been pouring in, and the positive feedback speaks for itself.
Here are some of the reactions and testimonies we’ve seen in social media:
Blogs
MyHeritage absolutely NAILED IT with my Dutch ancestry, identifying a small Province in the Netherlands, Friesland, only about 20 miles by 20 miles. How is that even possible???
I think you will agree that all that waiting has paid off…
This process has worked fantastically for me… MyHeritage was able to find my connection to my mom’s biological family… They lived in Odessa, Ukraine, right on the Black Sea. Guys, it is almost magical to see this very, very specific place show up on my DNA test results. I have not seen this at any other company.
This is a major step for DNA testing and moves these tools from the area of telling you what you already know into the realm of what you did not know previously.
Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
MyHeritage’s Genetic Groups can display your family’s genetic history in visual images that are much more detailed than anything else I have seen previously.
My assessment is that MyHeritage has significantly increased the insights offered to people with European heritage. I’m impressed with how my main genetic group pinpoints my Irish ancestry to a small area in a small country. This group aligns with my known family tree. My two other groups are intriguing, and a jump-off point for more research.
More reactions appeared on The Genealogy Guys Blog, FamilyTree.co.uk, GeneaMusings, Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, and other blogs.
MyHeritage Blog Comments
The blog post announcing Genetic Groups garnered many positive comments:
Conclusion
We’re glad that our users appreciate the Genetic Groups feature and we look forward to improving the percentages of the top-level ethnicity estimates.
If you’ve taken a MyHeritage DNA test or uploaded DNA data from another service, we invite you to check out your Genetic Groups and explore new insights about your family history.
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