Batch 390

[dwight]

sounds like herding alleles is no easier than herding cats

Well someone in batch 393 just posted yesterday that they got their mtdna results 3 weeks early. And here we sit. Seriously, what is up?!

[banshee]

LOL dwight. Glad to see your sense of humor since you seem to have been waiting the longest of any of us.

[Taz85]

I just don't understand their logic. You would figure the people who have been waiting the longest, they would finish first before they started other tests. Whats the point of posting a "expected" time frame?

[Darren]

Hello,

It depends on what specific test is being run. In general if you order your testing first you will get your results before someone who orders after you. This will be dependent though on what type of test it is and if the lab needs to retest the samples for any reason. I would recommend contacting us at [email protected] so we can look into your specific test to give you an update.

Darren Marin
-Family Tree DNA

[Taz85]

Hello,

It depends on what specific test is being run. In general if you order your testing first you will get your results before someone who orders after you. This will be dependent though on what type of test it is and if the lab needs to retest the samples for any reason. I would recommend contacting us at [email protected] so we can look into your specific test to give you an update.

Darren Marin
-Family Tree DNA

I have been in contact with them. I'm waiting for my HVR1 Test. I guess people in 393 are already getting mtdna results in.

[LucyBelle]

Triumph! Due date updated!

Anyone else in Batch 390 like me? Feb 2nd is a long ways away!!

Family Finder + mtFullSequence(FamilyFinder) 02/02/2011
Family Finder + mtFullSequence(FGS) 02/02/2011

:

just noticed that I've been updated to 2/21!!
That's less than 2 weeks now! I can hardly wait, this will give me the ability to finally get an answer to a lifelong quest for an answer to who my real father is... I can hardly believe that I'm just a few short days closer to the answer.

[CAM]

Family Finder

:

just noticed that I've been updated to 2/21!!
That's less than 2 weeks now! I can hardly wait, this will give me the ability to finally get an answer to a lifelong quest for an answer to who my real father is... I can hardly believe that I'm just a few short days closer to the answer.

I hope everything works well for you. I just looked my Uncle's family finder has just been updated and should be processed sooner than later like expected.

[banshee]

My FF is now due 2/21 as well, certainly an improvement over the previous delay date. My mtdnaFGS is still at 2/14. Good luck everyone!

[dwight]

All of this progress is good news to my ears - sooner or later they'll get to mine, I'm sure... my HVR1 still listed as January 3rd (Batch 387) (i still think it's the Neanderthal cooties that have them spooked ;-)

my wife's batch 394 FF & HVR1 still listed for March 2nd...

My FF is now due 2/21 as well, certainly an improvement over the previous delay date. My mtdnaFGS is still at 2/14. Good luck everyone!

[192971]

a failed estimate

My HVR2 results are now a week late from the estimate (2/2/2011). In my vocabulary, a week is not "few days".

I wonder why FTDNA does not make the update of too old estimates automatic? For example, if the estimate is four days old, add two weeks to it. It would be easy to implement programmatically. The benefit would be that the customers would probably become less irritated about the failed estimates.

[LucyBelle]

Finally!

sounds like herding alleles is no easier than herding cats

I recieved an email today:

Your kit 193206, is among the first group to be tested with the new Illumina OmniExpress system. We will then retest all existing participants in the Family Finder database at no charge. Family Tree DNA

Results will begin to arrive on Monday, February 14th, when the changes to the lab process and the Family Finder matching program are expected to be complete.

Will my results be comparable to results from the previous Family Finder platform? No, the old platform cannot be compared with the new platform. However, we will be rerunning everyone who has been tested with the old platform. Because of this, you may have a small number of matches at first. This number will increase over time as more people are converted to the new platform.

How long will it take to test everyone on the new platform? We expect the conversion process of all old Family Finder results to be completed in approximately 6 to 8 weeks.

[banshee]

I got the same email about the new FF.


And my mtdnaFGS came in tonight!

[Sw33tdecent]

I got the same email last night as well.

[LucyBelle]

Dwight? Did you hear yet?

Hear anything.....

[dwight]

Oh, yes. (Thanks for asking - sorry, I did announce it somewhere but perhaps not in this thread).

Yes, results in, and quite surprising. mtDNA=L1 (likely L1b1a), which has no migratory path through Europe - this is a very old mt hg that remained in central and west Africa...

"[much] further research required"

Hear anything.....