What additional information can I get for each Genetic Group?

In addition to showing you all the Genetic Groups to which you belong, we share additional insights about the groups including each group's top places and migration patterns throughout history, common ancestral surnames, common given names, common ethnicities among the group's members, and more.
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Click on any Genetic Group’s name in the left-hand panel or on the polygon of the Genetic Group on the map, and a detailed page will display more information about that group. The default time period is 1900–1950 and you can select other time periods as you wish.

Above is an example of a MyHeritage user who is a member of the Mormon Church and finds that the identity of his ancestors, and hence his family story, is written in his genes.

Use the arrows above the group name to move from group to group in your results.
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Let’s drill down further to see what information is included in this page.
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Under the group name, you will see the description of the group that appeared previously in the tooltip when hovering over the group name or polygon.

You will also see the number of DNA kits used to form the group, and the number of DNA kits linked to family trees. Seeing how many data points were used when creating the Genetic Group can help you understand which groups are more common among MyHeritage users. While some groups are larger and based on thousands of kits, others are more unique and are based on a small number of kits. Both can tell an equally compelling story, and be interesting to examine further.

Under that, the confidence level for this group will be listed.

Check the “Expand all” box to show all parameters for each section.
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This section shows cities and countries around the world where members of the Genetic Group lived during a specific time period. It corresponds with the map on the right which displays these places as well as the migrations of the Genetic Group during that time.

Use the “time period” selector above the map to see different distributions of places, both in the list on the left and on the map, for different time periods.

Members of Genetic Groups often have distinctive surnames that tell a lot about the group’s makeup. If you have any of those surnames in your family tree, it may further corroborate your link to the group. The bars indicate how common these surnames are in the family trees used to form this group.

Members of Genetic Groups can often have distinctive given names. Wouldn’t it be interesting to be a member of a Genetic Group and discover that you share common first names in your family tree with the group’s other members? The bars indicate how common these given names are in the family trees used to form this group.
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Each Genetic Group consists of individuals from one or more ethnicities. It can be interesting to see which groups contain fewer ethnicities, and are more homogeneous, while others are more mixed. The bars indicate the ethnicities common among the DNA kits used to form this group.

Common ethnicities for the Genetic Group of Portugal (Madeira). The list is simple: they are all Iberian! These are DNA results of a MyHeritage user born in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil, both of whose parents were born in Funchal, the capital of Madeira.

These are groups that have a strong relationship with the Genetic Group you are currently viewing. The groups may have genetic similarities due to their close geographic locations and intermingling of the groups over generations.
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Any groups that are related to a Genetic Group to which you also belong, will be displayed with a colored icon next to them. The groups that you are not a member of will be shown with a grey icon.

You can explore all 2,114 Genetic Groups on MyHeritage, including all those that you are not a member of. To do so, click “Show all available regions” at the bottom of the left-panel in the Ethnicity Estimate page. MyHeritage will then list all available Genetic Groups, beneath an ethnicity hierarchy, displaying how many Genetic Groups are found under each ethnicity.
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Next, click any of the ethnicities listed. MyHeritage displays it in an enhanced page that includes a representative image (this is new in this update). Then the page will list the Genetic Groups you have under this ethnicity (if any) and further on, all Genetic Groups will be listed. Click any of them to explore it. You may just hover the mouse over it to get a description tooltip and see its main polygon on the map.