Activate your kit online. Do NOT skip this step. It is necessary to get your results. Visit www.myheritageDNA.com/setup

Open the test kit and lay out the unopened swab and vial on a clean surface.

Remove the cheek swab from its wrapper and use the swab head to scrape the inside of one of your cheeks, while rotating the swab, for 60 seconds.

Open the vial and insert the swab inside, swab-end down. Once the swab touches the bottom of the vial, break the swab against the inside edge of the vial at the marked black line, leaving the swab-end inside the liquid in the vial.

Close the vial cap tightly.

Place the closed vial on the cotton pad in the clear plastic bag, and close the ziplock. Do not put anything else in the bag. Place the bag with the vial in the enclosed addressed envelope and seal the envelope.

Pay the postage and mail the envelope to our DNA lab. Once the lab receives your sample, we'll inform you via email.