It was a big news day yesterday at the RootsTech 2019 conference with Ancestry announcing its latest tools, Findmypast sharing news about the 1921 census, and MyHeritage with its announcement about the Theory of Family Relativity.
Let’s hope more good news is announced today.
The Theory of Family Relative is MyHeritage’s latest innovation in genetic genealogy.
Working somewhat like AncestryDNA’s new ThruLines, MyHeritage’s technology offers users theories that utilize nearly 10 billion historical records and family tree profiles to explain DNA connections.
Until now, genealogists used two different domains for making discoveries on MyHeritage: the paper-trail world of records and trees, and the biological world of DNA connections. Now, MyHeritage has combined the two domains and integrated them.
Previously, users who took a DNA test to find relatives were faced with puzzling lists of thousands of distant relatives, without many clues explaining the DNA connections. Now, for a growing percentage of these DNA Matches, theories are provided by MyHeritage that explain the precise relationship paths using trees and records.
Looking at my own DNA matches on MyHeritage, it appears users must attach their DNA results to an online tree to take advantage of this technology.
The Theory of Family Relativity feature is included for free with all Premium, PremiumPlus, and Complete subscriptions on MyHeritage. Individuals who upload their raw DNA data from other testing services to MyHeritage who do not have a subscription can pay a one-time fee of $29 US per DNA kit to unlock the Theory of Family Relativity and the full range of advanced DNA features offered by MyHeritage.
