23andMe has begun its Thanksgiving Day Sale which runs through November 6, 2020. All three testing offerings are on sale at this time but each has a different percentage off..
23andMe's Ancestry + Traits DNA test is regularly $99 but is on sale for $79.
23andMe's Health + Ancestry Service is regularly priced $199 but is on sale for $99. This is a 50 percent off savings.
23andMe also has a VIP Health + Ancestry Service is regularly priced $499
but is on sale for $399. This VIP Health + Ancestry is actually a
bundle package which includes two Ancestry + Health test kits, overnight
shipping, priority lab processing, premium customer support and 1-on-1
Ancestry results walk through.
23andMe
Ancestry Service (autosomal DNA) provides an ethnicity (admixture)
report, list of DNA matches,
chromosome browser and an internal member messaging system. 23andMe also
provides a general look at your Y-DNA haplogroup (if male) and a general look at your
mtDNA haplogroup. No subscription is needed to see/use all the
DNA matching features. A newer feature is the Family Tree feature which is automatically built from your DNA relationships.
See the 23andMe website to learn more about the
Health service features which includes 10+ Health Pre-disposition reports, 5+ Wellness reports, and 40+ Carrier Status reports.
23andMe recently made some changes to its service without any announcements to its customers before the changes happened. Be aware that with the recent ethnicity update it was learned that testers on the earlier testing chips would not receive any ethnicity updates at this time, only those on the V5 Chip. Also, a few months prior testers' DNA matches were reduced down to just 1,500 matches. (That leaves most testers with matches related at the furthest in the 4th to 5th cousin range.) The search capabilities also have been restricted from what it had been capable of before. 23andMe is now (by invitation) implementing a yearly subscription ($29/year) for customers on the V5 Chip who also have tested their Health too. Those that subscribe get access to three times the DNA matches, advanced search capabilities (like those that were there before and some other ways to filter matches), and a new series of health reports related to genetics and medicines as well as some predisposition reports. Unfortunately, that would mean existing customers would need to retest (yes, pay) so their DNA is on the V5 chip. But if an early tester is deceased there is no way to re-test that person on the V5 Chip.
With these changes, 23andMe reduces it usability for most genealogists to use DNA to aid their research. For adoptees, donor conceived and others searching for mis-attributed parentage (not parent expected) situations, you still never know where that someone tested and so at a good sale price the 23andMe Ancestry Only test or really good sale price for the 23andMe Ancestry+Health test it might be worthwhile. But there may be limitations if that someone they seek is tested on a V4 or earlier chip.
As a reminder, 23andMe also sells its test kits on Amazon.com and often at sale prices when it is having a sale.
However, for this sale period the Ancestry+Traits is only on sale for
$89 which is $10 more than the 23andMe website. It is likely close to the same price as buying from the 23andMe website and paying shipping costs. However, the Health+Ancestry test offered on Amazon is by a third-party seller not 23andMe.
(In the future if you do buy these tests on the Amazon website, make
sure the seller shown is 23andMe fulfilled by Amazon and not sold by a
third-party unauthorized seller.) Non-Amazon Prime members get free shipping due to the
total cost and because it is fulfilled by Amazon; prime members just get
quicker 2-day shipping for free.
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I know it is the day after Halloween and it is early but ...
Happy Holidays Everyone!
See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library!
LE
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