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    Quote Originally Posted by Peterski View Post
    I am a hoarder of FF kits during sale, tbh. I still have several stored that I haven't used.

    Some people hoard cats, I hoard FF kits during sales:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding



    FF is real crap, but cheap, and raw data is raw data.

    Just remember to transfer to a company that gives you better regional ancestry estimates.
    You sound like a serial cheek swabber.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peterski View Post
    I am a hoarder of FF kits during sale, tbh. I still have several stored that I haven't used.

    Some people hoard cats, I hoard FF kits during sales:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding



    FF is real crap, but cheap, and raw data is raw data.

    Just remember to transfer to a company that gives you better regional ancestry estimates.
    Hey! I want to take advantange of your knowledge so, can you ask me this humble questions please?

    Which do you think is more accurate, myorigins 3 or gedmatch calculators?
    What would you say is a better company for ancestry estimates using ofcourse FTDNA raw data?
    In your experience, how many weeks it takes them (FTDNA) to complete the results of a FF kit? (I think they are improving their times but i want a second opinion)

    I want to create a big datase base of costarican samples and FTDNA is the cheapest of all companies so it works for me. I have started with my family but in the future i hope to test friends and random people lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ion Basescul View Post
    So they arrived to my post office in exactly 1 month, but I was unable to get them because someone from the mailing room at FTDNA made a mistake and wrote the name of one of my grandmas as the receiver of the 3 kits instead of mine.
    Long story short, local guys refuse to hand it to anyone apart from grandma and they require some kind of document filled by FTDNA to confirm that the receiver should be changed to me.
    FTDNA is lazy to fill out the form, and instead they are shipping another batch of 3 kits, now in my name (hopefully).
    Another month of waiting
    Picked up the kits today

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    I have tested my grandparents living in the South today. Will post the kits to the US tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ion Basescul View Post
    I have tested my grandparents living in the South today. Will post the kits to the US tomorrow.
    So it lay on the shelf for almost 4 months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leto View Post
    So it lay on the shelf for almost 4 months.
    Would have stayed for longer had they not taken the vaccine.


    Grandma on paternal side died of Covid in the meantime, so I will have to test her sister.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ion Basescul View Post
    Would have stayed for longer had they not taken the vaccine.
    Wait, FTDNA requires that you be vaxxed in order to have your sample accepted?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leto View Post
    Wait, FTDNA requires that you be vaxxed in order to have your sample accepted?
    Of course not, but we refused to see them until they received this layer of protection. Didn't want to kill them.

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