r/23andme • • 27d 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 • • 2d ago

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

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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 • • 7h ago

Results Spaniard born in the basque country.

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I was really excited by this since my mother is not my biological mother (egg donation) What's crazy is she is half Andalusian half Asturian and I got both very represented in my DNA which I am very happy for:D tho I am curious are the African Italian and eastern European parts probably statistical errors? I am especially skeptical of the eastern European one, I mean Italy is very close to Spain and there were black people in Spain even back in the Spanish empire, but eastern European? Maybe the Visigoths? I don't know...


r/23andme • • 10h ago

Results Black American with Deep South roots

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81 Upvotes

r/23andme • • 7h ago

Results Extremely mixed results

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30 Upvotes

r/23andme • • 7h ago

Discussion Mexican Mestizo Communities

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Has any other Mexican mestizo-mestiza received a very close genetic group to Spain but distant to Mexico? I honestly expected it to be the other way around and found it interesting and wanted to see if anyone else experienced the same thing.


r/23andme • • 14h ago

Results Do I look like my results?

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I’m from Rio De Janeiro but live in Portugal, I believe I’m perceived as white irl, but some of my online friends from the US tell me I’m not 😂.


r/23andme • • 8h ago

Results A British/German/Mestizo/Jew?😂

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Quite interesting to receive these journeys. Family has been in the States for over 125+ years.

Especially crazy to see the African diaspora.

Mom is British/German and dad is a 4th gen mestizo with part English.

I guess that would make me a castizo?


r/23andme • • 0m left

Question / Help Is it worth doing a test from 23andme

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I only have one region so I’m not sure if there’s any point


r/23andme • • 1m ago

Question / Help Only one parent tested

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Hi all,

Just wanting to know if it is possible to know the DNA of the other parent if only one parent has tested? I am tested, as one of my parents is. And the other parent is not available to take the test. Thanks.


r/23andme • • 21h ago

Results Greek Results

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53 Upvotes

1/2 Outer Maniot 1/4 Cephalonia 1/4 Cesme-West Anatolian


r/23andme • • 4h ago

Results Haplogroup and autosomal distance comparison

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Haplogroups track only one line of your family. It is actually the only figure that can tell you whether you descend from a given person. Your autosomes are a bit dicey. You need advanced tools to figure out relationships. But it is cool to find out whether someone who is closer to you haplogroup-wise is also closer to you in the autosomal sense. But in communities that are not endogamous, you are bound to find significant distance. Anyway, here is my comparison table.


r/23andme • • 10h ago

Traits What percentage could I be?

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So my mom is Irish polish german, has pale skin light features, my dad is Italian and filipino, his mom is half filipino half Italian and his dad is just Italian, I ended up having low almond sharp upward tilted green eyes and olive skin and dark hair, what percentage of asian could I be? Is 12% the absolute highest? Or could I be higher?


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results Wanted to share. W/ a pic of me!

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144 Upvotes

r/23andme • • 9h ago

Reconstructed Ancestors Possible Native Ancestor

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Even though I didn't inherit East Asian/Indigenous, ot looks like my parents do. Does this mean I have Native ancestry possibly?


r/23andme • • 14h ago

Discussion For those who downloaded your raw data: what did you actually want to find out?

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Genuine question. A lot of people here download the raw file, and then it just sits in a downloads folder.

When you downloaded yours, what were you hoping to learn?

  • relatives / family tree stuff
  • health things (I know raw data has big limits there)
  • traits and quirks, like what's unusual about you
  • comparing with a partner or friends
  • nothing, just wanted a backup before deleting my account

And did you actually find it anywhere?

Disclosure so nobody feels misled: I'm working on a tool in this space, which is why I'm asking. I'm not linking anything and won't in the comments. I just want to hear what people actually want.


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Historical Matches Historical-Mexico Colonial European heatmap and genetic profile

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Here is a heatmap and genetic profile for Mexico Colonial (European. )


r/23andme • • 19h ago

Discussion Which ethnic groups would a person who has Georgian heritage from both sides, with Father being from Imereti and Samegrelo(Regions in Western Georgia) while mother is Gurian from Mothers side but Father has some Ukrainian/Polish ancestry, cluster with?

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Which ethnic groups would such be related to? West Georgians traditonally have very little to no steppe ancestry, while from his mothers side would input some steppe ancestry and WHG. Would they still be closest to West Georgians or more to groups that have Steppe admixture or its negligible?


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Historical Matches Historical matches and pic. 🇵🇷

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r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results My haplogroup heatmap and ethnic estimate

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Here is my paternal and maternal haplogroup heatmap and further ethnic estimate. I am from Ethiopia


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Question / Help Do Raw Data SNP's relate to ancestry on the Chromosome Painter?

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So, I have trace Senegambian on my 2nd chromosome, Levantine on the end of my 11th chromosome, and some Coptic Egyptian on (I think) my 6-7th chromosomes.

If I checked those locations in my raw data, and the genes located in that area are often not common in let's say Europeans, would that be a way I could see a genes effect on my SNP's?


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results My results as an African American! ❤️ Who can explain them to me? I have a relatively high percentage of Nigerian ancestry. There’s also a few other regions that stand out like Northern Italian / Maltese and Southeast Asian.

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r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results Irish results

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121 Upvotes

One side Irish the other American w Irish ancestry


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Question / Help Jamaica & Barbados migration to the US? Seeing this a lot in Black American DNA results

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I've noticed a pattern in DNA results showing migration from Jamaica and Barbados straight to the US.

Does anyone know the historical background?

Any insights or resources to check out would be appreciated!


r/23andme • • 1d ago

Results English results

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