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    The LUNCH HOUR GENEALOGIST

    Jan 08, 2021 3 minutes

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    Longest segment

    Ancestry have recently introduced longest segment in match results for their users, but what do they mean? The DNA you and a match share will be in segments and the length of the longest segment you have in common can sometimes help determine your relationship. Occasionally, on Ancestry, the length of the longest shared segment is greater than the total length of shared DNA. This is because they ‘downweight’ the DNA that may be

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