November 11, 2025: Ethnicity Estimates

News items:
https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/10/myheritage-upgrades-its-dna-tests-to-whole-genome-sequencing/
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Custom-Match-Clusters
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Science-of-Matches-by-Cluster
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/using-custom-clusters-to-find-dna-matches
Also, I meant to talk about this, but did not – will cover next month:
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/35757285869335-23andMe-Reconstructed-Ancestors-Overview

Reference Panels:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Reference-Panel
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212169298-23andMe-Reference-Populations-Regions
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/4401981569423-Population-Clusters#h_01JC65JBD30B644TB9AWKN0NKJ
https://www.myheritage.com/wiki/Reference_Populations

Tree Completeness:
https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/eight-ways-you-can-use-ancestral-trees-at-dna-painter/
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2015/08/11/how-much-of-your-family-tree-do-you-know-and-why-does-that-matter/

Inheritance:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Ethnicity-Inheritance
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/11/10/qa-everyone-has-two-family-trees-a-genealogical-tree-and-a-genetic-tree/

White Papers and guides:
https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2025/10/2025ancestralregionswhitepaper.pdf
https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2024/09/ancestraljourneyswhitepaper2024.pdf
https://www.23andme.com/ancestry-composition-guide/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/myorigins-3-0-white-paper/

DNA Painter and Chromosome Painters:
https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/painting-your-populations/
https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/new-ancestrydna-chromosome-painter-segments/

Ancestry’s latest update:
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/ancestrydna-2025-origins-update

23andMe’s latest update:
https://blog.23andme.com/articles/ancestry-composition-version-7-is-here

MyHeritage’s latest update:
https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/02/introducing-ethnicity-estimate-v2-5-improved-dna-ethnicity-model/

and also, we didn’t talk about this, but they added this in the last year:
https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/02/introducing-ancient-origins-trace-your-origins-back-10000-years/

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