Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
DSUAREZ said: "I recently bought and sent a test to a second cousin thinking I would activate it and share it with her. The lady is elderly and relies on someone to look after her. That person opened an Ancestry account. Had the test done and now is blocking me from any access to it."
DSUAREZ that is terrible! I am so sorry that happened to you.
"Another" DNA website makes it so that the person who is maintaining the results can add others onto the results page as heir to the results. I think that could also be a good option here but it sounds like, not until something is figured out about how to prevent situations like DSUAREZ described.
I don't understand why the person caretaking your elderly relative would feel a need to do something like that but sometimes people's motivations are very mysterious things.
Since these tests add up quickly it would be an excellent thing to suggest, that this type of loophole would be fixed.
Thank you all for the answers. I ended up buying a couple of more tests and so far so good.
deeflint01 had a good possible solution although that would not always be possible for all. Might sound strange but at times we don't know the person we're sending the kit to, all that well. But they have agreed to do a test. Might seem odd to them to receive a disassembled or opened test, and it might not be sanitary. I might worry it could contaminate the results. But it could possibly work, in some situations, and maybe with wearing gloves or something while handling the pieces.
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Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought about doing it that way, If I send any out in the future I'll follow your instructions.
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Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
You don't have to handle the "Tube" to get the activation # (at least on the kits that I used last year). I had all the kits sent to me. I opened the box and the code was in the paper work. I activated them on my account and then mailed them out to the people. They spit and sent them off to Ancestry.
I then "shared" the results with them. I know my Mom can see all the matches and open them up to see their trees. The only thing that she's missing is that all the "contacting" comes thru my account unless she initiates it.
P.S Since I had multiple kits I was mailing to others, I wrote their name on the outside of the box when I was activating them, to keep from mixing them up when I mailed them :)
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Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
Good to know; but I think some will possibly touch the equipment while rooting through looking for the serial codes or whatever. This is already too complicated (the idea of a test, not your instructions) for a lot of people. (Not Ancestry's test, any test.)
"Another" testing facility registers the kit when it is ordered. You get a serial # and a log in password you can later change. All of that takes place online. The kit is mailed directly to them, they don't need to do anything but take it and send it back. You can set up the person's page online in the meantime, and their results will automatically be added to it later.
The way this is set up here, is a bit counter intuitive. I think there are still some kinks that might be worked out in the process here.
Your idea will work in a best case scenario but it could be done so much easier, I think. It shouldn't be necessary to go through all of that.
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Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
The system you describe certainly is more efficient than what Ancestry is doing. I don't think they thought through their method very well.
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Re: Antosomal DNA - How to administer another relative's test
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