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

Ancestry has finally pushed names, pictures, and descriptions for our 226 new regions! This update is bringing so much more specificity in regions globally. There's quite a few (obviously), so I've attached the codes and corresponding names below. To view a region's description and primarily located countries, paste it into the following url, and change the region-code part to whichever ethnicity you're looking into (while logged in):

https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/public/ethnicity/2026/region-code/cms?filterHtml=false&locale=us

In addition, Ancestry has shown us that the update banner is releasing on 9/22. This is the exact same date as last year; I would not be surprised if the update releases at almost the exact same date as last year (October 10). This is truly getting closer and will be exciting to see if Ancestry can pull it off.

Regions:

{
  "items": [
    {
      "region": "00105",
      "name": "Senegal"
    },
    {
      "region": "00115",
      "name": "Southern Senegal & Guinea-Bissau "
    },
    {
      "region": "00125",
      "name": "Hausa & Fulani Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00135",
      "name": "Liberia"
    },
    {
      "region": "00145",
      "name": "Sierra Leone"
    },
    {
      "region": "00205",
      "name": "Ivory Coast & Southwestern Mali"
    },
    {
      "region": "00215",
      "name": "Mali—Mandé Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00225",
      "name": "Mali—Dogon Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00305",
      "name": "Ghana & Western Togo"
    },
    {
      "region": "00405",
      "name": "Benin—Eastern Gbe Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00415",
      "name": "Benin"
    },
    {
      "region": "00425",
      "name": "Southern Benin—Yoruba Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00435",
      "name": "Benin—Western Gbe Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00505",
      "name": "Central Nigeria—Tiv People"
    },
    {
      "region": "00515",
      "name": "Nigeria—Jos Plateau"
    },
    {
      "region": "00525",
      "name": "Nigeria—Middle Belt"
    },
    {
      "region": "00535",
      "name": "Southern Kaduna & Central Nigeria Plateau "
    },
    {
      "region": "00545",
      "name": "Central Nigeria—Gbagyi People"
    },
    {
      "region": "00555",
      "name": "Central Nigeria—Migili People\n"
    },
    {
      "region": "00565",
      "name": "Yorubaland"
    },
    {
      "region": "00575",
      "name": "Igboland "
    },
    {
      "region": "00705",
      "name": "Southwestern Cameroon"
    },
    {
      "region": "00710",
      "name": "Cameroon—Nso & Highland Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00715",
      "name": "Cameroon—Ring Kingdom Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00720",
      "name": "Cameroon—Widikum Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00725",
      "name": "Cameroon—Bamenda Highlands Peoples "
    },
    {
      "region": "00730",
      "name": "Cameroon—Bamileke Plateau"
    },
    {
      "region": "00735",
      "name": "Cameroon—Bangwa & Bamileke Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00752",
      "name": "Western Bantu & Forest Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00754",
      "name": "DRC—Luba Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00761",
      "name": "Uganda Batwa"
    },
    {
      "region": "00801",
      "name": "Southern Bantu Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00850",
      "name": "Zimbabwe"
    },
    {
      "region": "00875",
      "name": "Burundi & Rwanda"
    },
    {
      "region": "00905",
      "name": "Uganda—Central Sudanic Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "00915",
      "name": "Western Nilotic Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "01005",
      "name": "Kenya—Eastern Nilotic Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "01015",
      "name": "Kenya & Uganda—Eastern Bantu Peoples\n"
    },
    {
      "region": "01101",
      "name": "Ethiopia"
    },
    {
      "region": "01150",
      "name": "Eritrea"
    },
    {
      "region": "01205",
      "name": "Somalia—Equatorial Coast"
    },
    {
      "region": "01215",
      "name": "Horn of Africa "
    },
    {
      "region": "01405",
      "name": "Atlantic Sahara"
    },
    {
      "region": "01415",
      "name": "Northern Morocco & Mediterranean Coast"
    },
    {
      "region": "01425",
      "name": "Central & Eastern Maghreb"
    },
    {
      "region": "01435",
      "name": "Northern Saharan Oases"
    },
    {
      "region": "01505",
      "name": "Upper Egypt"
    },
    {
      "region": "01515",
      "name": "Middle Egypt "
    },
    {
      "region": "01525",
      "name": "Egypt"
    },
    {
      "region": "01550",
      "name": "Sudan"
    },
    {
      "region": "01605",
      "name": "Arabian Peninsula"
    },
    {
      "region": "01705",
      "name": "Lebanon"
    },
    {
      "region": "01715",
      "name": "Southern Levant"
    },
    {
      "region": "01725",
      "name": "Jordan Valley & West Bank"
    },
    {
      "region": "01735",
      "name": "Middle Euphrates"
    },
    {
      "region": "01745",
      "name": "Lebanon & Northern Syria"
    },
    {
      "region": "01755",
      "name": "Northern Levant"
    },
    {
      "region": "01765",
      "name": "Lebanon & Southern Syria"
    },
    {
      "region": "01905",
      "name": "Armenia"
    },
    {
      "region": "01915",
      "name": "Eastern Anatolia Armenians"
    },
    {
      "region": "01925",
      "name": "Cilicia Armenians"
    },
    {
      "region": "01935",
      "name": "Central Turkey"
    },
    {
      "region": "01945",
      "name": "Eastern Turkey"
    },
    {
      "region": "01955",
      "name": "Southeastern Turkey"
    },
    {
      "region": "01965",
      "name": "South Caucasus"
    },
    {
      "region": "01975",
      "name": "Georgia"
    },
    {
      "region": "01985",
      "name": "Western Turkey"
    },
    {
      "region": "01995",
      "name": "Northern Turkey"
    },
    {
      "region": "02005",
      "name": "Eastern Mizrahi"
    },
    {
      "region": "02006",
      "name": "Western Mizrahi"
    },
    {
      "region": "02010",
      "name": "Northern Iraq & Iran—Assyrian Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "02020",
      "name": "Northern Iraq "
    },
    {
      "region": "02030",
      "name": "Southern Iraq"
    },
    {
      "region": "02040",
      "name": "Central Iran"
    },
    {
      "region": "02050",
      "name": "Armenians in Iran"
    },
    {
      "region": "02060",
      "name": "Iranian Azerbaijan"
    },
    {
      "region": "02070",
      "name": "Southern Iran"
    },
    {
      "region": "02080",
      "name": "Iran"
    },
    {
      "region": "02205",
      "name": "Northern Punjab"
    },
    {
      "region": "02215",
      "name": "Northeastern Punjab"
    },
    {
      "region": "02225",
      "name": "Central Punjab"
    },
    {
      "region": "02235",
      "name": "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Gilgit-Baltistan"
    },
    {
      "region": "02245",
      "name": "Northern India & Pakistan"
    },
    {
      "region": "02255",
      "name": "Western Kashmir "
    },
    {
      "region": "02265",
      "name": "Pashtunkhwa"
    },
    {
      "region": "02275",
      "name": "Western Punjab"
    },
    {
      "region": "02285",
      "name": "Punjab & Sindh"
    },
    {
      "region": "02295",
      "name": "Sindh"
    },
    {
      "region": "02305",
      "name": "Hazara"
    },
    {
      "region": "02350",
      "name": "Eastern Punjab"
    },
    {
      "region": "02355",
      "name": "Kashmir & Punjab Foothills"
    },
    {
      "region": "02360",
      "name": "Northwestern India"
    },
    {
      "region": "02365",
      "name": "Rajasthan & Gujarat, India"
    },
    {
      "region": "02404",
      "name": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    {
      "region": "02408",
      "name": "Coastal Karnataka"
    },
    {
      "region": "02412",
      "name": "Gujarat"
    },
    {
      "region": "02416",
      "name": "Parsis"
    },
    {
      "region": "02420",
      "name": "South Gujarat"
    },
    {
      "region": "02424",
      "name": "Gulf of Khambhat"
    },
    {
      "region": "02428",
      "name": "Tamil Nadu—Iyengar"
    },
    {
      "region": "02432",
      "name": "Jammu & Kashmir"
    },
    {
      "region": "02436",
      "name": "Tamil Nadu"
    },
    {
      "region": "02440",
      "name": "Goa"
    },
    {
      "region": "02444",
      "name": "Andhra Pradesh & Southern Karnataka"
    },
    {
      "region": "02448",
      "name": "Kerala"
    },
    {
      "region": "02452",
      "name": "Central Kerala"
    },
    {
      "region": "02456",
      "name": "Gujarat—Darji"
    },
    {
      "region": "02460",
      "name": "Maharashtra"
    },
    {
      "region": "02464",
      "name": "Mumbai"
    },
    {
      "region": "02468",
      "name": "Uttar Pradesh & Bihar"
    },
    {
      "region": "02472",
      "name": "Telangana & Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    {
      "region": "02476",
      "name": "Kerala—Varghese"
    },
    {
      "region": "02480",
      "name": "West Bengal & Northern India"
    },
    {
      "region": "02490",
      "name": "Sri Lanka"
    },
    {
      "region": "02494",
      "name": "Indian Ocean—Tamil"
    },
    {
      "region": "02505",
      "name": "Bengal"
    },
    {
      "region": "02515",
      "name": "Northeastern Bangladesh & Assam"
    },
    {
      "region": "02605",
      "name": "Nepal & the Himalayan Foothills"
    },
    {
      "region": "02650",
      "name": "Bhutan"
    },
    {
      "region": "02705",
      "name": "Central & Eastern Nepal"
    },
    {
      "region": "02805",
      "name": "Indigenous Siberia"
    },
    {
      "region": "02905",
      "name": "Northwestern Mongolia"
    },
    {
      "region": "02915",
      "name": "Northern Mongolia & Southern Siberia—Buryat"
    },
    {
      "region": "02925",
      "name": "Western Mongolia"
    },
    {
      "region": "02935",
      "name": "Kyrgyzstan"
    },
    {
      "region": "02945",
      "name": "Central Asia"
    },
    {
      "region": "02955",
      "name": "Central Mongolia"
    },
    {
      "region": "02965",
      "name": "Northwestern Mongolia & Siberia—Turkic Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "03105",
      "name": "Japan"
    },
    {
      "region": "03115",
      "name": "Chūgoku Chihō, Japan"
    },
    {
      "region": "03305",
      "name": "Eastern & Northeastern China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03355",
      "name": "Northern China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03405",
      "name": "Southwestern China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03505",
      "name": "Taiwan & Southeastern China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03515",
      "name": "Central China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03605",
      "name": "Pearl River & Lingnan Coast"
    },
    {
      "region": "03615",
      "name": "Guangdong, China"
    },
    {
      "region": "03705",
      "name": "Tai Peoples"
    },
    {
      "region": "03750",
      "name": "Cambodia"
    },
    {
      "region": "03805",
      "name": "Myanmar"
    },
    {
      "region": "03815",
      "name": "Mainland Southeast Asia—Hmong People"
    },
    {
      "region": "03825",
      "name": "Mainland Southeast Asia—Iu Mien People"
    },
    {
      "region": "03855",
      "name": "Maritime Southeast Asia"
    },
    {
      "region": "03905",
      "name": "Central & Southern Vietnam"
    },
    {
      "region": "03925",
      "name": "Northern Vietnam"
    },
    {
      "region": "04005",
      "name": "Northern Luzon"
    },
    {
      "region": "04015",
      "name": "Southern Luzon "
    },
    {
      "region": "04025",
      "name": "Central Luzon"
    },
    {
      "region": "04035",
      "name": "Bicol"
    },
    {
      "region": "04160",
      "name": "Western Visayas"
    },
    {
      "region": "04165",
      "name": "Central Visayas "
    },
    {
      "region": "04170",
      "name": "Visayas & Mindanao "
    },
    {
      "region": "04175",
      "name": "Eastern Visayas"
    },
    {
      "region": "04305",
      "name": "Fiji"
    },
    {
      "region": "04315",
      "name": "Papua"
    },
    {
      "region": "04325",
      "name": "Vanuatu"
    },
    {
      "region": "04335",
      "name": "Eastern Melanesia"
    },
    {
      "region": "04345",
      "name": "Western Melanesia"
    },
    {
      "region": "04750",
      "name": "Tahiti"
    },
    {
      "region": "04905",
      "name": "Alaska-Yukon (Canada & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05005",
      "name": "Northern Prairies & Great Lakes (Canada & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05015",
      "name": "Atlantic Northeast (Canada & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05025",
      "name": "Great Plains (USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05035",
      "name": "North Pacific Coast (Canada & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05045",
      "name": "Gulf Coast & Mississippi Basin (USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05055",
      "name": "Colorado Plateau (USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05103",
      "name": "Centro-Occidente—Norte (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05106",
      "name": "Baja California Peninsula (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05109",
      "name": "Chihuahuan Desert & Sierras (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05112",
      "name": "Centro-Occidente—Sur (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05115",
      "name": "Western Sierra Madre Highlands (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05118",
      "name": "Eastern Sierra Madre & Gulf Coast (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05121",
      "name": "Centro-Oriente Highlands (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05124",
      "name": "El Bajío (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05127",
      "name": "Jalisco Highlands (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05130",
      "name": "Noreste & Rio Grande (Mexico & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05133",
      "name": "Huasteca & Gulf Lowlands (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05136",
      "name": "Gulf of California (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05139",
      "name": "Sonoran Desert & Gulf Coast (Mexico & USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05142",
      "name": "Southern Sierra & Tehuantepec (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05175",
      "name": "Southern Rockies & Upper Rio Grande (USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05178",
      "name": "Northern Rio Grande Basin (USA)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05205",
      "name": "Yucatán & Petén Basin (Mexico)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05305",
      "name": "Coastal Belize"
    },
    {
      "region": "05320",
      "name": "Nicaragua"
    },
    {
      "region": "05340",
      "name": "Honduran Highlands & Caribbean Coast"
    },
    {
      "region": "05345",
      "name": "Lenca Heartland & Pacific Slopes (Honduras & El Salvador)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05360",
      "name": "Mayan Highlands (Guatemala)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05380",
      "name": "Cuzcatlán (El Salvador)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05405",
      "name": "Talamanca Highlands & Nicoya Coastlands"
    },
    {
      "region": "05450",
      "name": "Isthmus of Panama"
    },
    {
      "region": "05805",
      "name": "North Andean Coast (Colombia)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05815",
      "name": "High Andean Heartland (Colombia)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05825",
      "name": "The Pacific Chocó (Colombia)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05850",
      "name": "Coastal Cordillera & Sistema Coriano (Venezuela)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05855",
      "name": "Orinoco Delta (Venezuela)"
    },
    {
      "region": "05860",
      "name": "Maracaibo Basin (Venezuela)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06005",
      "name": "Central Andean Altiplano (Peru)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06015",
      "name": "Northern Andean Slopes (Peru)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06060",
      "name": "Altiplano & Gran Chaco (Bolivia)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06205",
      "name": "Pampas & Patagonia (Argentina)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06210",
      "name": "Río de la Plata Basin (Argentina & Uruguay)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06250",
      "name": "Mata Atlântica (Brazil)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06255",
      "name": "Sertão & Amazon Basin (Brazil)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06260",
      "name": "Atlantic Pampas & Highlands (Brazil & Uruguay)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06280",
      "name": "Gran Chaco (Paraguay)"
    },
    {
      "region": "06808",
      "name": "East-Central European Lowlands"
    },
    {
      "region": "06822",
      "name": "Western Carpathian Basin"
    },
    {
      "region": "06824",
      "name": "Eastern Slovakia"
    },
    {
      "region": "06826",
      "name": "Carpathian Basin & Uplands"
    },
    {
      "region": "06844",
      "name": "Lesser Poland"
    },
    {
      "region": "06846",
      "name": "Northern Poland"
    },
    {
      "region": "06848",
      "name": "Central & Eastern Poland"
    },
    {
      "region": "06912",
      "name": "Northwestern Croatia & Istria"
    },
    {
      "region": "06914",
      "name": "Central Croatia"
    },
    {
      "region": "06916",
      "name": "Western Balkans & Sava Plains"
    },
    {
      "region": "06918",
      "name": "Central Balkans"
    },
    {
      "region": "06919",
      "name": "Dalmatia"
    },
    {
      "region": "06990",
      "name": "Bulgaria"
    },
    {
      "region": "07070",
      "name": "Pontian Greeks"
    },
    {
      "region": "07620",
      "name": "Belgium"
    },
    {
      "region": "07753",
      "name": "Switzerland"
    },
    {
      "region": "07754",
      "name": "Northeastern Germany"
    },
    {
      "region": "07755",
      "name": "Western Czechia"
    },
    {
      "region": "08305",
      "name": "Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "region": "08310",
      "name": "Scottish Lowlands & Central Belt"
    }
  ],
  "count": 226
}