Project News

Yesterday was Wednesday, the day FTDNA ships batches to the lab.    I like to think that by design two new orders were placed just before the cut off and went right out.    A Y-Refine12to37 upgrade was ordered for Jeffry, #44, and Richard, #82, ordered a DeepSNP-R1b test.

Our unreceived lab results list now looks like this:

Kit      
Product              Test               Name        Batch EstResultDate
12790    
Y-Refine37to67   Y-DNA38-47 Markers   Philip,#10     189    3/12/2007  
                 Y-DNA48-60 Markers
                 Y-DNA61-67 Markers 
13030   
DYS434             DYS434             Jim,#7         174   11/27/2006  
DYS435             DYS435                            174
DYS485             DYS485                            174
DYS495             DYS495                            174
DYS643             DYS643                            174 

37125   
Y-Refine12to37   Y-DNA13-25 Markers   Jeffery#44     192    4/04/2007  
                 Y-DNA26-37 Markers                  
79452   
DeepSNP-R1b      DSNP-R1b             Richard,#82    192    4/02/2007  
                 
81521   
Y-DNA12          Y-DNA1-12 Markers    Gerald#85      189    3/09/2007  

N16245       
Y-Refine25to37   Y-DNA26-37 Markers   Cameron#58     191    3/28/2007                

N26644  
mtDNARefine       HVR2   Mary Ann Lasley Lewis, #m4  182    3/09/2007

Notice that Mary Ann's date has now slipped from 1/22/2007 to 3/09/2007 with this note added:

This test failed to yield results for your
sample. Your B swab is being run now.
Results from this round of testing are
expected by this date.

and mine is just way past due, without explanation.

FTDNA has added this notice to the Admin's site:

February 13, 2007
Adding members from other labs: At the request of many group administrators, we have agreed to offer a below cost set of tests to allow people that have tested with other labs to get tested with Family Tree DNA and be included in your Surname Project.    The new participant will have to fill this LAB CONVERSION FORM and send it back to our office.    This offer is valid until 3/31/07.

What this does is permit folks who are tested elsewhere to (for a price) have their results added to the FTDNA site.    The purpose being so that Project Admins who only use the site offered by FTDNA can then compare those others to their FTDNA testees.    So long as I manage our independent Berry Project website this isn't necessary for us since I post, group and compare all our Project participants wherever you were tested.    If anyone is interested, though, and you need any assistance, let me know.