My mom got Zach and me DNA tests for Christmas. The tests were 50% off for the week of Black Friday from 23andMe, so they were about $50 each. We ordered them Monday, and they arrived in about a week. We wanted to know what the results of the test were around Christmas, so we opened the boxes a little after Thanksgiving. I wish I took a picture, but they give you a fairly large tube with a line to fill up with spit. You can't eat or drink anything for 30 minutes before spitting into this tube. And it takes A LOT of spit. It said we needed about 1/2 a teaspoon of spit, but it seemed more like a tablespoon to get to the recommended fill line. We put the provided stabilizer solution and sealed the tube as instructed. We registered our kits online using the kit number on the box. We were interviewed on a series of questions, like family background, health screening, ect. All the questions could have been skipped, so they don't rely on your questions as part of their testing. We shipped it back using the pre-paid mailing label through USPS. Then we wait. It said to wait about 6-8 weeks for the results. We had 5 people in our group. 3 of them had results ready in 4 weeks. One was ready in 6 weeks. And Zach's took a few days longer than the 8 weeks. They have a timeline that lets you see which step your sample is in. It stayed in Analyzing most of the time. After we got our results back, we were able to connect with each other and compare the results. I was able to be completely certain when I took the oath at the Johnson County office (to get our wedding license) that Zach and I were not related. Zach was not at all surprised with his results. He was 99.1% European and 0.8% Middle Eastern & North African. Less than 0.1% was unassigned. He expected to be mostly Italian and French. The British and Irish was a surprised, but they weren't positive where they originated, prior to the last few generations. They knew part of his dad's family was from Sicily, which accounts for the North African. My mother also took the DNA test, so I was able to piece together which parts I get from which parent. We were surprised to learn that my mother had no French in her, since she had been told her entire life that her grandmother was 100% French. The Chinese was a surprised to me, but I learned that Vietnamese (specifically Northern) came from China. My mom, like many Vietnamese immigrants, came from South Vietnam, so it proved that our family must have migrated from the north.
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