We apologize for the technical difficulties at the end of this meeting, and for the delay in this post. We were mostly done – we would have covered a couple of more slides about clustering and an ethnicity feature that we’ll instead cover in November.
This month, we explored AncestryDNA.
First, some news items:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/SideView-Update
https://www.23andme.org/blog/articles/introducing-premium-parental-inheritance/
https://blog.myheritage.com/2026/08/new-on-myheritage-trace-your-paternal-line-back-thousands-of-years-with-y-dna/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/family-finder-ngs-upgrade/
Here are some articles that may be helpful for navigating and using Ancestry DNA:
Ancestry’s blog: https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Linking-an-AncestryDNA-Test-to-a-Tree
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/DNA-Matches-Split-Up-By-Parent
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/SideView-Technology
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Common-Ancestor-Hints
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-ThruLines
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/pro-tools-dna-matches/
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Grouping-and-Filtering-AncestryDNA-Matches
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/dna-matches-by-cluster
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/using-custom-clusters-to-find-dna-matches
https://familylocket.com/how-to-use-ancestry-dna-custom-clusters-in-your-research-with-video/
https://www.ancestry.com/c/dna-learning-hub/reading-your-ethnicity-estimate
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Ethnicity-and-Communities-FAQ
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Ethnicity
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Communities
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/DNA-compare