Ancestry will soon make it possible to see which side of the family any of our DNA matches come from.
According to the technology news website, The Verge, the new feature will launch this week. It builds on the SideView technology Ancestry announced in April.
“We’re really excited to see what users can do with this parental matches feature,” said Caitlyn Bruns, a population geneticist at Ancestry. “I do think it will really help unlock an understanding of how you’re connected with your matches.”
The feature will let users more easily see where matches fall on their family tree. Previously, people could manually place people on one side of their family as they learned more about their matches. Now, it’ll happen automatically.
Once it goes live, this new DNA match feature will be available to users automatically when they log in to their account.
Learn more in The Verge’s article, Ancestry will tell users which side of the family their matches come from.
Thanks to Debbie Kennett for sharing the story on social media.
