Today I received an e-mail  from Ancestry.com letting me know:

“Your AncestryDNA results have been updated.”

Ancestry has added a large number of additional DNA communities and some of them included some of my family members.

I am included in one of the sub regions of the Eastern Ohio River Valley & Northern Blue Ridge Mountains Setters Community.

Do you see the Amish Country in the title?

Here you can see the two large geographic areas for the Southern Pennsylvania & Amish Country, Ohio Settlers.

In Pennsylvania you can see the general area of the first area where Amish settlements were.

I am sure that many of my Amish cousins recognized the town names here. Especially Walnut Creek and Sugarcreek which were early Ohio Amish settlements. It will be interesting to explore the information they show here.

I also have a lot of ancestors in the Upper Midwest Settlers Community, especially in the Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota & Minnesota Border Settlers sub region.

These are mainly my Father’s family, but some of my Mother’s maternal side of the family are also in this region.

I am sure that they will continue to refine these regions and that we will see many more changes in the future.

However, for now I am sure that I will find some helpful information as I search through the data.

Do you have some new communities to explore?

Steven