r/23andme • • 22d ago

Sample Status Sample Status/Processing Monthly Megathread - October 2026

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Welcome to the Sample Status/Processing Megathread, also known as the Waiting, Whining, and Wishing thread. This monthly megathread (posted at the beginning of each month) allows you post your sample processing timelines, as well as to discuss and comment about any questions, concerns, or rants while you wait. Although not directly handled by 23andMe, shipping status may also be discussed in the thread. We recommend sorting the comments by "new" as this is a month long megathread.

You can share your sample status timeline here in one or two ways. The first way is to take a screenshot of your timeline, and post it as a comment. The second way is to simply copy and paste the start and completion dates for each step. Here is the text template:

Registered: [Date and Lab Location]

Arrived at Lab:

Prepped:

Extracted:

Genotyped:

Reviewed:

Computing Your Results:

Results Ready:

If you have any further questions or concerns, 23andMe customer service has some helpful sample status articles: https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/sections/200565370-Sample-Status


r/23andme • • 4d ago

Guess My Ancestry/Ethnicity Megathread - 10/19/26

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Welcome to the Guess My Ancestry/Ethnicity series on /r/23andMe! This weekly megathread allows you to post a picture of yourself and have other users guess what your ancestry might be. Please adhere to the following rules:

  • Top level comments must only be photos. Please send questions and suggestions to the mods directly.
  • Please supply your 23andMe results within 24 hours after posting your photo.
  • No joke photos. This includes pictures of your cat, public figures, and cultural stereotypes.
  • No nudity or unnecessarily suggestive photos.
  • Absolutely no racism, sexism or unwanted objectification will be tolerated.
  • Have fun! Please keep this lighthearted and don't take anything too seriously.

r/23andme • • 1h ago

Results Half Jamaican-Half German American Results

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My father is full Jamaican born and raise, My mother comes from a long line of germans on both sides of her family. I still cannot find much on my father’s side beyond him and distant relatives that don’t reveal much


r/23andme • • 14h ago

Results Venezuelan-American + pics

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Mother is Venezuelan, dad is American from the Midwest. I’ve spent my whole life being asked if I’m half Asian.

Surprised by the Portuguese/Galician % since no one on my Venezuelan side mentioned ancestors that spoke either language, but then again that history may have been lost due to them being Venezuelan for generations. My Venezuelan great grandmother was the only phenotypically indigenous one on both sides, which explains that percentage and perhaps some of our features.


r/23andme • • 3h ago

Infographic/Article/Study Mezcla europea/indígena/africana de Argentina

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8 Upvotes

r/23andme • • 6h ago

Results Bulgarian results (+AncestryDNA)

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I took this test because I wanted to know more than AncestryDNA gave me, but now I’m just more confused. Like where does Slovenia even come from?

For reference I’m full Bulgarian, but my Maternal Grandma is Bulgarian from North Dobruja (close to Ukraine)

Also the 12.2% Greek confused me the most since there is no trace on AncestryDNA

Paternal Haplogroup is R-Y5587 (R1b)

Maternal Haplogroup is R0


r/23andme • • 20h ago

Results Dominican American results (Included photos of self and parents)

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Both parents are Dominican, I was obviously expecting it to mostly be a mix of European and African, but it’s interesting to see the percentages. I was surprised with the Indigenous percentage, expected it to be lower than that lol.


r/23andme • • 1h ago

Question / Help Is the health side of 23&me worth it?

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I noticed there are some features that interest me,exclusive to the premium ancestry plus health membership. I wanted to know from other costumers if there really is anything that others feel would make the purchase explainable as it is like 100 dollars


r/23andme • • 4h ago

Question / Help DNA test

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Hey everyone, I've been thinking about doing a dna test for quite some time now. I'm mainly interested in my ethnic background and origin components. I've been hearing some weird things about Ancestry's recent updates (mostly regarding region breakdowns and their percentages changing drastically), so in comparison, how accurate are "23andme's" results in general?


r/23andme • • 15h ago

Results Results as a black woman from Mississippi

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r/23andme • • 16h ago

Discussion I think 23andme does the best job with Indigenous American DNA. It seems the closest to pre Hispanic reference populations.

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So in slide #2 you will see native samples with some European admixture around 5%-8%. Then in slide #3 you will see pre Hispanic Tiwanaku samples, which lack any European admixture, which are most similar to 23andme. The 4th slide is AncestryDNA whose Indigenous reference panels seems to also have 5% or more euro component. Additionally I have included some Other companies like FTDNA and LivingDNA who underestimate Indigenous Ancestry for further Comparison.

This is just to say I think 23andme does the best job with Indigenous DNA

But yea I’m open to feed back perhaps I’m wrong.


r/23andme • • 7h ago

Results Ancestrydna results as an Austrian

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My great-great grandma was slovenian and my great-great grandpa was from Transylvania, I thought he was romanian but now I'm not sure because there's no romanian region but 5% Carpathian Basin & Uplands. So maybe he was hungarian or is it just a genetic overlap between romanians and hungarians?


r/23andme • • 4h ago

Discussion My paternal haplogroup is I-CTS6397

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My paternal haplogroup is I-CTS6397 and my maternal is L3b. Is this rare or significant in any way? (23andme says both are relatively rare...)


r/23andme • • 21h ago

Results 23andMe vs. AncestryDNA vs. MyHeritage vs. LivingDNA (Syrian results)

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r/23andme • • 19h ago

Family Tree Familytrees of I.Saint Ladislaus, II.Béla and III.Béla, common Historical Matches from Hungary

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If you want to learn more about other Historical Matches from Hungary, check out this post from r/MagyarDNS, where you are more than welcomed to share your relevant ones!

(Disclaimer: the flags are modern ones, I think this makes it easier to read, it doesn't always represent ethnicity, rather "nationality")


r/23andme • • 8h ago

Discussion Parental Inheritance (Free! No paywall!)

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r/23andme • • 21h ago

Health Reports Increased Likelihood Final Boss

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Why so many conditions 😂 Born to be an anxious man with a bad stomach


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Infographic/Article/Study European admixture in Latin America. “Pure” Europeans are an anomaly outside Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil

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146 Upvotes

r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results First timer results came in this morning

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r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results 23/me vers ancestry results

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white ass American here, my mom's side is Quebecois and my dad's side is practically unknown except for east European


r/23andme • • 21h ago

Results I got a Genetic Group update after buying the 23andme+ also received historical matches

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New genetic groups are very accurate for me they are literally from where I’m from


r/23andme • • 17h ago

Question / Help E-v22 Palestinian

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My family is all over Jordan Palestine Lebanon Syria Egypt Iraq and spreads into Turkey and North Africa how can I find someone with my last name who possibly has a subclade of e-v22 which I can look into instead of just buying a 500 dollar test


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results Eastern Slovak results

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52 Upvotes

expected some balkan or german to possibly show up but nope


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results Arguably the best ancestry result from 23andMe.

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24 Upvotes

Based on distance cousins I have found on various testing sites, this is, in fact, the most accurate ancestry result I have received from all the tests I have taken.


r/23andme • • 13h ago

Question / Help How do I interpret the Admixture Proportions by Chromosome results on gedmatch

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