A DNA kit is smaller than I expected. Just a tiny box!
Here’s what’s inside:
Spit Tube
The instructions are clear:
At first glance the little tube seems HUGE and you wonder how on earth you’re going to be able to produce that much spit! In reality, it’s got a false bottom of sorts. It only took me a few mouthfuls. Your results may vary. There’s even a wide funnel on the top of the receptacle to really get it all in there! Once you’ve filled the tube to the line, you take the funnel off and screw the top on tight. You should hear a click.
The top contains blue liquid that stabilizes your spit. It will flow into your spit. Once its all in there…Shake, shake, shake and into the bag it goes. You package it all up nice and secure in the postage paid box Ancestry provides and pop it into any local mailbox. Easy peasy!
Ancestry DNA says results take 6 to 8 weeks from the time they receive it. I read online that they’ve got a backlog of tests due to high demand sooooo, I’m setting my expectations to….sometime in June. Just in time for my birthday, woot woot!
So far my Ancestry experience has been decent. I paid full price for my kit because I’m too impatient to wait for one of their frequent sales but I’ve seen their sale price marked at ninety nine dollars. So not too bad. I think I paid one hundred and fifty four dollars by the time it was all said and done.
When I activated my kit I was given the option to maintain a genealogy account with them for one dollar until June ..something. So I took them up on on their offer of that too!
So far I’d recommend them!
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