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DNA: Waiting for the next test to drop

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So I went to RootsTech this year, and this happened: Ancestry had an amazing deal on DNA Kits and sold a boatload of them, with a limit of "five" per person at an amazing discount. And then afterward, a boatload of these tests got used and they all got shipped to Ancestry for processing. Imagine, thousands and thousands of tests all got shipped into Ancestry's DNA processing center, in window of a month.  And this was all on top of the tests from Christmas that were given as gifts that got mailed in and were received, and were already waiting for processing. INTO THIS, four of my tests - three for family, one for a client - sat, waiting for processing. About six weeks into just sitting in receiving, two of my tests plopped into processing.  Not the first one received, but the middle two.  And then, nothing. I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G. And this concerned me.  Because the first test had been received two weeks before the first one to plop into processing. Bu...