Ancestry Updated Caribbean Communities

Ancestry has released an update for their Communities in the Caribbean.

I received an email telling me that I had two new Communities.

As we add people to our database and keep developing the science behind AncestryDNAⓇ, we’re able to continue adding new communities to provide more insight into your family story.

With more communities from African American Communities and Afro- Caribbean Communities, you could uncover new connections between your family story and other parts of the world.

Email from Ancestry

I couldn’t really tell you what they added because I haven’t been keeping an eye on the different communities just the two I had. They did remove the Afro-Bahamians and Afro-Bermudians which didn’t apply to my family history.

I really didn’t notice what was updated at first but then I realized, they added Dominica.

I was curious so I went through the feature where you can compare Communities with your DNA Relatives and saw that they also added Virgin Islands but I didn’t receive it. Which makes no sense to me as my father and his maternal line is from the Virgin Islands and has been for generations. I myself was born in the Virgin Islands and most of my DNA Relatives are from the Virgin Islands and have family still there.

It is very similar to 23andme not assigning Saint Barthélémy to either my father, myself or our many cousins with ties to St. Barts.

I guess all I can do is wait for their next update and see if either my brother or myself gets assigned to the Virgin Islands Community.