AncestryDNA: Genetic Ethnicity Test

This product should not be made available for shipment outside the US. To have your DNA sample analyzed you will need to collect the specimen and ship it back to the US so that Ancestry can analyze. However, the postage stamp for the return package is only for within the US. If I you contact Aramex or any other shipping company to send a human specimen, they will ask for a CDC report. I tried visiting govt clinics and calling ministry of health and they all confirmed that this can’t be done if they weren’t the ones collecting the specimens. So this product is useless and you will lose money..

I am apparently not allowed to say exactly why this product was completely useless, but that is my very solid opinion that it was exactly that.

Unfortunately Ancestry DNA company service is not available in UAE Amazon did not mention that when selling the product Now I am punished that they do not want to pick up the product for refund. I need to drive to return the product Very unsatisfying service

You can’t send it to US for testing due to customs regulations. The product description should mention this.

Unable to process this DNA test from the UAE.

The test cannot be returned to the US without a non infectious certificate that the 3rd party seller cannot/will not give. We have purchased the test but cannot send it back for analysis.

This product only can be used and shipped in US!!!!!

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I've done DNA testing with all of the major companies now. And I've been at this DNA stuff for almost 15 years now. * I found the ethnicity estimate to be just about equal to everyone else. You can get more detail running your own models via gedmatch but for the curious or beginner, this is the easy result. If you just want to know whether you need a kilt or lederhosen or green beer for the next holiday seasons then this works as well, with many particular limitations, as any of the others. * There's no medical interpretation - most don't anymore. You can get good medical results running your raw download through Promethease for a few bucks. If you want to know medical propensities then Ancestry won't help much on its own. * The relationship calculations are pretty accurate and the database is huge. Compared to my other tests, this one returned far more and much closer connections. If you're looking for birth parents and such, this is the place to start. Just remember that the calculator is an estimate and other possibilities exist. - The sampling process was simple "spit in a tube, mail it in" - I much prefer cheek swabs but this gets the job done. - Time was super fast for me - 4 weeks from mail-in. I have a test out with one company that is nearing 3 months to process. - The user interface is pretty simple for newbies but doesn't offer much in the way of analysis tools for those who have DNA experience. Gedmatch can makeup for the shortfall in analysis tools if you can get your matches to upload there. - The ease of creating an attached tree makes for some particularly easy genealogical research to confirm/refute family connections. - The ease of creating an attached tree makes for some particularly prevalent errors in family trees. - yDNA and mtDNA predictive markers are hidden in these results if you want to make an effort to dig them out. - The marketing of this tester has created a large database of folks who were only interested in ethnicity and admixture estimates who have no interest in and won't reply to genealogy queries. Many haven't logged back in since they got their results back. There seem to be a lot of customers who forgot that molecular biology, human origins and migrations geography, and world history weren't their best subjects in school and were expecting this to return an easy result to "grasp it all" in a few minutes. The more you want to dig, the more complex the understanding will become. "DNA for Dummies" is a master's degree - "All You Ever Wanted to Know..." is a PhD. If you get hung up on needing to understand it all in a few short hours then you're going to get very frustrated. Take it in a little at a time. Having spent many $1000's on this hobby over the years, I'm very pleased with this $70 investment into understanding who I am and where I came from. Your mileage may vary.

Not sponsored just a fan! This is my third time purchasing this kit via Amazon as it was on sale for Cyber Monday. Makes a great gift. It's easy to use, easy to send off to the lab, and it's fun to get the email alerting you to the results. As an amateur genealogist who has spent long hours building our family tree through the Ancestry site (corroborating with birth, marriage, death certificates; war records, burial information, immigration documentation, family archives) I will emphasize that the Ancestry DNA test yields more specific, accurate results when added *to* other verifiable data. When the DNA test stands alone it's conjecture. The more factual information you input the better the outcome, so consider filling up your tree. Example: with testing alone, results may say 80% of your ancestors come from France and 18% Canada, 2% Other. However when you combine the test with other facts you load into the Ancestry program, the test can zoom in for a more specific result to say 80% France > Normandy; 20% Canada > Southern Ontario Settlers (Ottawa Valley); 2% Sweden. Over time, Ancestry will also alert you to when you get a DNA match - that is, when close or distant family members also test and get connected to you. I did my own kit three years ago and I continue to get new information from it which I enjoy! Highly recommend.

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Most of my family and various in laws have tested with Ancestry now. My wife found out via ancestry that one great grandfather and one great great grandfather were someone completely different than recorded and known by the family. She also found via ancestry that another great grandfather had a whole extra family after her great grandmother died young and was able to trace several living children and grandchildren of the resulting half great uncles and aunts, who she is now in touch with on a fairly regular basis. On my side we found a close family friend of many years' closest match was my grandma and then my mum was also a very close match, we had no idea she was related so that was a nice surprise. My wife has also done 23andme but functionality on there is a lot more limited and there are far fewer UK users. So would recommend Ancestry more. It is cheaper to order from Amazon as opposed to from the Ancestry site, as from the Ancestry site tests are shipped from Germany which costs quite a bit extra per test and it can take up to three weeks to arrive. I had already used Ancestry for general genealogy purposes since the mid-noughties so had full membership already, which covers unlimited use and functionality of the DNA 'portal' and tools. As others have said the Ancestry matches tools are not the best and are lacking compared to other sites. Also Ancestry is either unavailable or is simply just not popular in most European, Asian and African countries so if your ancestry is not mainly from the UK you won't have many matches and are likely to have a less detailed ethnicity estimate. It is possible to upload your raw data to other sites except for 23andMe and I would recommend this, but make sure you read up on the sites and their reputation for data protection and transparency first. My Heritage are particularly good for matches with many tools Ancestry don't have and a much more user friendly layout, though their ethnicity estimate is highly inaccurate for most users and should be read for comedy value only.

The kit was the easiest thing in the world to use. Theres no blood involved, it's only saliva. Shipping the DNA to the lab is prepaid and simple. It took longer than expected to get my results from the lab but when I did I saw it right away on the ancestry app and I was also satisfied with the app.