I find these delays very annoying - one of my kits (398993 ) was batched for YDNA12 on 08/12/2015 and I am still waiting for results. On the other hand, I have a bunch of YSEQ-only kits and it usually takes just a week or two for the Alpha+Beta panel which equates to FTDNA's YDNA37 + one additional marker. The funny part about kit 398993 is that at the same time I send a sample from this person to YSEQ too and ordered some random marker so that I have his DNA in both companies. YSEQ reported the marker result + results for about ten more markers for free even before FTDNA had batched the test. From the YSEQ markers I determined that this person belongs to J2-L70. -- Best regards, Atanas Kumbarov http://dna.kumbarov.com/ On 2015-10-10 16:57, Orin Wells via wrote: > Over the past months I have had encouraging input from folks within > FTDNA that they are making changes aimed at reducing the testing time > considerably - never a promise by how much. We have been waiting with > hope that this will come to pass, but so far we still see tests that > still take 10 to 12 weeks. Five weeks sounds incredibly promising! I > am one who was spoiled by the Ancestry test results that we used to get > in two weeks and sometimes, when the stars were aligned perfectly, in > about a week. It can be done and if they are doing what I think they > are at FTDNA we just might start seeing something approaching that sort > of turnaround yet. > > On 10/10/2015 6:54 AM, Larry Vick via wrote: >> The last member of our VICK project ordered a 37-marker test. His kit was batched on 26 Aug 2015, and it was complete on 1 Oct 2015. I had prepared him for a long wait, and he was pleasantly surprised with the much shorter time to get his results than he expected. >> Regards, >> Larry >> From: Lindsey Britton via<genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> >> To: GENEALOGY-DNA@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 9:23 AM >> Subject: Re: [DNA] Longest Wait for STR Results? >> >> >> I doubt that I can, but every standard test order in my Britton project since last December has been three months or more in processing. My question is: WHY? What has changed? Something surely has because results used to be posted in as little as three weeks and never more than six weeks except in unusual circumstances. >> >> Lindsey >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >