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 -- Orin Wells 253-630-5296

I became an FTDNA surname project administrator in 2010, and 6-8 weeks was then typical for Y-DNA test results. The process only became slower in the year and a half, and I'm more than happy to see that FTDNA is focusing some resources on returning to a more reasonable, timely turn-around. Loretta -----Original Message----- From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Orin Wells via Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:57 AM To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] Longest Wait for STR Results? 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 -- Orin Wells 253-630-5296 ------------------------------- 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