Customers of the consumer genetics and genealogy company will soon be able to see which side of the family they came from The new feature builds on the Side View technology that was announced in April.
Caitlyn Bruns, a population geneticist at ancestry, is excited to see what users can do with the parental matches feature. It will help you understand how you're connected with your matches.
Users will be able to see where matches fell on their family tree. People used to be able to manually place people on one side of their family. It will occur automatically now.
The Side View technology uses a huge database of genes from each parent to sort them. Users were able to see which parts of their ethnicity came from their parents. For 90 percent of customers, Sideview can have 95 percent accuracy.
Bruns says that the community feature will connect people to groups of other users who may have descended from people who lived in the same area as their ancestors. It will group them by their parents.
When users log in to their account, they'll be able to use the new DNA match feature.
Bruns says, "This is something that we are really excited about that we can do with the size of our database and not something that other people are able to do at this time."