New ethnicity splits on Ancestry

[Flemming]

Is anyone else getting new matches (the few there are now  ) with, for example, Ireland and Scotland shown separately? I'm getting this but my own Ireland/Scotland is still a combined %. Just wonder if this means the *new* format will apply to people taking the test from now on, but not for those already tested.

[davidft]

I looked at my matches and for my matches the new feature only applies to people who tested in the last 7 days. All matches before that, and myself, have the old combined Scotland & Ireland

[Flemming]

Marvellous. Another less than helpful 'improvement'. Chromosome browser next? 

[Romilly]

Everyone’s going to be updated by the 14th September apparently.

It’ll be interesting to see what disappears this time!

Romilly 

[Sinann]

One of mine has the divided Ireland Scotland result and there is a information icon under 'You' and updated written beside it, hover or that and it tell you a bit about the updates.

[Flemming]

What does it mean, though?

AncestryDNA recently updated ethnicity estimate results based on advances in DNA science and additional data. Until all users update their results, you may see differences in regions and region names as you compare results.

It made me smile that the page banner says they're updating ethnicity to be 'even more precise.' 

[Petros]

I see it also splits out Welsh from English/Northern Europe

[Gadget]

Mine's not changed yet. I feel deprived (not).

I really don't like this focus on ethnicity.

[brigidmac]

I'm looking forward to the change .. splitting the Welsh and Scottish may help me find relatives of my mother's Scottish great grandmother who we  know nothing about .

In theory I don't like the idea of ethnicity splits but in practice it already works for me with people of  European Jewish ethnicity always linking to her maternal grandfather

When you know which line your match is from ..it makes it easier to join dots.  Especially if outside the known marriage.