For all of you out there waiting for the results from your 59 marker test, I thought I would forward this message that I just received telling about the upgrade from 59 markers to 67 markers!!! I guess we all need to read that FTDNA webpage more often in order to keep up with what is happening. The announcement was made on May 19th. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman gwenbj@seanet.com -----Original Message----- From: Diana Gale Matthiesen [mailto:DianaGM@dgmweb.net] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:46 PM To: STRAUB-DNA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [STRAUB-DNA] new upgrade is to 67, not 59 Hello List, You may or may not have noticed, but the new FTDNA upgrade to 59 markers was raised to 66 markers, then to 67 markers -- for the same price. In other words, anyone who ordered the 59-marker or 66-marker upgrade will be returned results for 67 markers. So many people jumped in and ordered this upgrade when it was first announced that FTDNA is now backlogged, and the return of results is falling way beyond target dates. It also seems general interest in DNA testing is picking up because the rate of new test kit purchases is picking up. You can tell by the Kit numbers, which were in the low 20,000s when the project was opened, but now, less than two years later, has topped 65,000! FTDNA also puts their stats on their home page: http://www.ftdna.com/ Diana