Explore Your Community's Ancestry Patterns

Discover which ancestry regions are most common in each AncestryDNA community, powered by real, anonymized data.

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How This Data Works

We use a careful, multi-step process to ensure the results you see are accurate, reliable, and protect your privacy:

Anonymous data only: Users export and submit their ancestry data. No personal or identifying information is ever collected.
Exact sample selection: Only samples where ancestry proportions sum to exactly 100% are included. No adjustments are made.
One community per user: Only users assigned to a single community and sub-journey are included, to avoid overlap and confounding.
Group inclusion Only groups with at least 30 valid samples are included. This ensures statistical reliability and avoids misleading results from small sample sizes.
Mean ancestry calculation: For each region, we calculate the average proportion across all users in the group. Only regions present in more than 50% of users are included for reliability.
Rescaling: Mean values are rescaled so the total for each group sums to 100%, making results directly comparable between communities.

All results are shown as group-level summaries—never any personal or identifying information.