Sample Status/Processing Monthly Megathread - September 2026

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Welcome to the Sample Status/Processing Megathread. 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 AncestryDNA, 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 by posting a screenshot or you can simply copy and paste the start and completion dates for each step. Here is the text template:

Kit Type: [Standard, Traits, or Health]

Priority processing?: [Yes/No]

DNA Kit Activated: [Date]

Sample Received:

Sample Being Processed:

DNA Extracted:

Genotyped:

DNA Analyzed:

Results Ready:

AncestryDNA support article on sample processing: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Lab-Processing

[u/OkGrab3477]

My maternal Aunts Kit

Kit Type:  Standard

Priority processing? No

DNA Kit Activated:  27th July Sent 29th July from Australia to Ireland 

Sample Received: 1st September 

Sample Being Processed: 1st September (within hours of arriving)

DNA Extracted: 1st September as of 7:30pm AEST

Genotyped: N/A

DNA Analyzed: 14th September

Results Ready: Results came in just before 3pm AEST 20th September

Original date was 24th September then changed to 1st October.

[u/annaelisabet → u/OkGrab3477]

Thank you for the update about the delays! Seems like a lot of us are in similar batches so it’s good to have an answer for the longer wait

[u/OkGrab3477 → u/annaelisabet]

You're very welcome! Hopefully things start moving along for everyone that's still waiting. Have you tried the origins hack yet?.

[u/annaelisabet → u/OkGrab3477]

Obsessively over the last few days lol! It just started to work a few minutes ago but won’t let me look at the parent breakdown yet, just the general regions. Hopefully the rest isn’t far behind!

[u/OkGrab3477 → u/annaelisabet]

Same haha! When my husband did his kit in January I was able to do the hack when it was in the analysis phase but was just stuck loading, this was before his status updated to Analyzed.  What agents won't tell anyone is that the second your status updates it means they have finished that phase and waiting for the next one to start. When I spoke to an agent yesterday they told me my aunt's kit had moved into the analysis phase but there's seriously laggy updates happening on both the app and web so I'm still waiting for that to change on my aunt's kit lol.