Common Communities

[Phoenix]

Is there any way we can drill down to what this means for Parent 1 and Parent 2?

My UK groups concentrate on the Portsmouth area and the South West peninsular. I have no huge problem with this, except that I ought to have a sliver of East Anglian ancestry, given that Granny's entire ancestry is there, back to beyond 1750.

But my common communities are:

Southern Midwestern Settlers
South East England
North Carolina Settlers
East of England

and on the other side:

South East England
East of England
Central Southern England
Greater London, England


Devon disappears off the list entirely, so common communities has to mean something very different from ethnicities

[kiterunner]

Does it tell you any more if you click on "East of England"?

[Phoenix]

It ought to, didn't it? But it takes me straight back to the ethnicities page. I assume the algorithm is simply recording, for a certain number of generations, where people are saying their ancestors were born.