Latest Y-700 batches

[Tenn4ever]

New kid in the block. On 4/20, it said 6/15/2020 - 6/29/2020. The following day, it changed to:

Big Y-700	Y700	1083	06/29/2020 - 07/13/2020

I can read the horror stories... (get used to August, perhaps)

Get used to a year from now. At least it is your sample. I'm dealing with a cousin's sample (I'm paying) and it's been almost six months......

I'm furious with how a Y700 test I administer for a cousin is being handled. The batch number is 1031 batched December 1, 2019. I was not advised until almost three months had expired the end of February that it had failed quality control. As expensive as these tests are there is no reason that we could not be kept informed instead of waiting until both samples have been tested They sent out another kit to me which I in turn mail to my cousin and then he mails back to FTDNA. That process alone took almost three weeks because when they told me the sample had failed and a new kit would have to be mailed they didn't mail the kit. I had to call and remind them. Then they received the second kit on March 13th. The testing process started all over again. Every two weeks the due date keeps changing. It's now been eight weeks since the second testing began. I call today and they tell me my cousins sample failed quality control on April 14 but they are still trying and didn't start retesting until May 6.......I suppose that is on his second vile but the clueless customer service rep didn't know what that meant. Now, I have to wait until the middle of June to find out if this sample fails. This is inexcusable.

[Cavazos]

New kid in the block. On 4/20, it said 6/15/2020 - 6/29/2020. The following day, it changed to:

Big Y-700	Y700	1083	06/29/2020 - 07/13/2020

I can read the horror stories... (get used to August, perhaps)

[ALASMI]

2 kits batch 1077
still waiting

[SHBEEB]

Batch1039 I am still waiting for the result and it has been postponed four times

[Tenn4ever]

Well, at least the expected date has been updated to 04/06/2020 - 04/20/2020.

Delayed again.....until 05/04/2020. That will be five months. Batch 1031, 12/01/2019

[kilvurra]

My Batch 1029 kit's preliminary results came in on March 31.

[Tenn4ever]

Well, at least the expected date has been updated to 04/06/2020 - 04/20/2020.

[Tenn4ever]

11 (eleven) months later (ordered on april 28, 2019) the big-Y results finally came in. and let me tell you: the lab actually had 4 samples to work with.

This is scary. My cousin's results are four months now (batched Dec 1, 2019). They requested new samples five weeks ago . I chatted with them last Friday and they said 6 - 10 more weeks but his expected date on his order page still says 03/23 so I think it should be updated.

[Kohlehydrat]

11 (eleven) months later (ordered on april 28, 2019) the big-Y results finally came in. and let me tell you: the lab actually had 4 samples to work with.

[MasonX]

Big Y Batch 999 finally came in today after almost 5.5 months

[gattaca]

Big-Y 700, batch 1044, completed on 11th February 2020

[Ivar Kristensen]

Batch 1039 (Dec 16, 2019) upgraded from Y-111 to BigY700. Received my results yesterday, 8. Feb.

[D F Ervin]

Batch 1040 (Dec 18, 2019) upgraded from BigY500 to BigY700 - results received this morning. Feb-08, 2020.

[KATM]

Congratulations on getting your results.

I hope you will get your tester's results in very soon!

[Tenn4ever]

Tenn4ever:
This was an upgrade from Big Y-500. I had contacted Customer Support before ordering the upgrade to Big Y-700, because I was not sure there was a sufficient sample left to do the test. I got a reply from a Big Y specialist, who told me there were two vials from 2013that were unused and in storage (extra vials I had ordered at that time, attempting to have enough for future testing), PLUS his two original vials from 2012 (transferred from National Geographic, GENO 2.0), one of which seemed to look unused! In addition to using the original vials for the Geno 2.0 test, his tests at FTDNA after that were:

• 2013 - Y-DNA 67
• 2013 - mtDNA Full Sequence
• 2013 - one SNP test
• 2014 - upgrade to Y-DNA 111
• 2015 - SNP pack
• 2017 - Big Y 2.0

There was an "upgrade" to Big Y-500 in mid-2018, which was apparently done for free at the time (adding the STR markers from 112-550, which were already tested in the earlier Big Y test).

The Big Y specialist did say that they couldn't guarantee they would be able to produce results for the Big Y-700 test, because they wouldn't know the quality of any of the samples until they tested them, but there was plenty of quantity to use. I was amazed that it seemed that all the above tests had apparently been done using the sample from one vial. I had expected that there might only be one of the extra vials, maybe both, left in storage that might be usable. These vials are from an elderly male in his mid-80s, who died in 2014. He had also given a DNA saliva sample for 23andMe late in 2012, the results of which were transferred to FTDNA for Family Finder in early 2013.

Congratulations on getting your results.