Access to Many AncestryDNA® Features Has Changed for Non-Subscribers

 The writing has been on the Ancestry.com wall for a month or more.  We all figured that Ancestry.com access to some AncestryDNA® features was going to change - they started warning us in January.  Now it has been put into effect for guest subscribers who do not have an Ancestry.com family history subscription..  

Rather than try to highlight everything and miss something, here is the AncestryDNA® Support page that has links to explanatory articles - https://support.ancestry.com/s/ancestrydna:

The article AncestryDNA® and Memberships, including a long table of different options, highlights most of the AncestryDNA® Feature changes:

With an AncestryDNA® kit, you can access your results, including your ethnicity estimate, DNA communities, DNA matches, and some traits.* However, a membership could help you make more discoveries.

For better readability - see AncestryDNA® and Memberships.

To summarize:  

*  If you have any sort of Ancestry.com family history membership (US Discovery, World Explorer, All Access) - you don't lose any AncestryDNA functionality that you currently have.

*  If you don't have an Ancestry.com family history membership, you can subscribe to an  AncestryDNA Plus™ membership ($29.99 for a renewable six-month subscription) and gain all the AncestryDNA functionality you had before, but probably not (?) access to Matches family trees.

*   If you are a Guest user without an Ancestry.com family history membership or an AncestryDNA Plus™ subscription, you will have limited access to features such as Traits, Shared Matches, and the family trees of Matches.  You will not have access to Common Ancestors or ThruLines at all.

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful. Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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