Tomorrow

Tomorrow is a big day in my genealogy journey.  Tomorrow is the first day that we could have confirmation of Peter Klassen's sister's identity.  Stating it like that makes it sound so simple, when it really probably won't be.  Because Peter's sister married Susanna's brother (we assume, from pictorial evidence), their kids are double first cousins.  This means that they share double the amount of DNA that plain old first cousins share.  And of course, that double amount of DNA will trickle down through the family to their descendants, namely, Peter's sister's grandson, and Susanna's son.  Sorting out the FALK DNA from the KLASSEN DNA will be an interesting process.  But tomorrow is the first day it could begin.

However, it's not uncommon for tests to be delayed the first time they go through processing.  I don't think we'll actually get results tomorrow.  I'll be very surprised if we do.  I'm just hoping that the test makes it through on the first round of processing so we don't have to wait and wait and wait.  :)

The other big piece of this puzzle that we're waiting on is the KROEKER/FALK test.  That one should be on it's way back to the lab now.  I called that relative last week and coached him through swabbing his cheeks and preparing his test for mailing.  Hopefully he did it right!  I guess we'll see in a week or two when the lab records it as received.  Comparing his DNA against the other FALK/KLASSEN test (from the first paragraph) will be key, because the only DNA they should share (hopefully) is the FALK DNA.  But there should be twice as much of it as there would normally be, so.... I guess we'll have to see!

All that to say, I'm really hoping we get the results from the first test tomorrow!