MyHeritage has just refreshed the data for Theory of Family Relativity™, adding millions of new theories that can help explain your relationship to your DNA Matches.

Theory of Family Relativity™ is a powerful feature for genetic genealogy that helps to streamline your research by explaining how you and your DNA Matches might be related. It utilizes MyHeritage’s huge database of 46 million family trees and 19.8 billion historical records to offer plausible theories about how you are related to your DNA Matches.

Since the last update, the MyHeritage DNA database has grown, and with it the number of family tree profiles and historical records have increased. This has led to substantial growth in the overall number of theories.

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Theory of Family Relativity™ by the numbers

Thanks to this update:

The total number of theories has grown by 22%, to 166,168,357.

The number of DNA Matches that include a theory has grown to 116,865,576, representing a 22% increase.

The total number of paths has increased by 21%, to 1,204,841,247.

The number of DNA kits with at least one theory has grown by 7%, to 2,528,969.

You can read a lot more about this new update in the MyHeritage Blog at: https://blog.myheritage.com/2024/02/theory-of-family-relativity-update/.