How Do You Register Your Ancestgry Dna If You Don't Have An Account?

Q: I received permission to order a test for sister-in-law. How do I accept her results sent to me on Ancestry? She's 97 and the last living of her generation, so I need to exercise this soon!

A: Good for you for going after the oldest generation, fifty-fifty when it isn't your own family! So many people are in your situation—trying to effigy out the best way to help their older family members complete a Dna test.

Thankfully, it's easy to order a Deoxyribonucleic acid examination for someone else, but yous'll need to keep a couple things in heed. First, you'll likely need to have someone there to help her collect a sample. And the kit has to be registered online and linked to an AncestryDNA account to be activated, so be certain yous arrange for that alee of fourth dimension.

If your sis-in-law doesn't accept anyone on her end to assist with those two steps, I suggest you lot society the kit to yourself, open it, handle all the pre-registering, and so send it to your relative for sample collection. And so all your relative has to do is spit in the tube, spiral on the chapeau, shake it, and send the test dorsum in the post.

Note that Ancestry requires each kit to exist registered to its own electronic mail address, in its own Beginnings account. If your relative doesn't take one or both, you can create a free Gmail or Yahoo business relationship for them, then create a new gratuitous account at Ancestry.

Once your relative receives her results, just share them with your own Ancestry account. Make sure that you take a minute to share what you discover with your relative. It doesn't demand to exist lengthy. Most people like to look at their ethnicity percentages, and your sister-in-police will likely want to run into whatever matches she recognizes. And if y'all make any genealogical discoveries with her DNA, be sure to tell her!

To summarize, here are the steps you should take when ordering a Dna test for a relative:

Get permission.
Social club a Dna kit from Beginnings and ship it to yourself.
Set up a new, free Beginnings.com account for your relative. If she doesn't have an email address, create one of those first.
Pre-register the kit online, and associate it with your relative's Ancestry business relationship.
Mail the kit to your relative. If necessary, make yourself available (or inquire someone else) to assist with sample drove and mailing the completed test.
Log in to your relative's account when her results come in, and requite yourself administrator permission. This will allow you to view her Deoxyribonucleic acid results.
Talk to your relative about her results.

For assistance, see my detailed how-to on sharing AncestryDNA results with other users. And for more than on gifting Deoxyribonucleic acid tests to relatives, cheque out Shannon Combs Bennett'southward guide. Good luck, and go get her tested!

A version of this commodity appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of Family Tree Magazine, which likewise includes a quick-reference guide to using Beginnings.com.