04-20-2024, 11:56 PM
(04-20-2024, 09:47 PM)Riverman Wrote:(04-20-2024, 09:43 PM)ArmandoR1b Wrote: It seems they are only doing a relatively small number of existing kits at a time. Someone posted that the tree updated with about 3,000 haplogroups recently. I still have a lot of male Family Finder matches without a haplogroup but one finally has one and it helps because it's a male line I am interested in. Unless they speed things up I suppose it will take at least several months for all of the male customers with FF to get a haplogroup.
At the current rate, they might work on it well into the next year. The last update was fairly significant, the problem is that they make big pauses in between. I think they have limited resources and can't update the data base and doing new samples simultaneously or something like that.
Well, I have a couple of BigY testers in the pipeline which should be prioritised indeed, but I really wonder about their promises if they simply don't have the capacities to fulfil them in time. Better late than never, but it leaves a bit of a bad taste still.
I'm hopeful that they finish before the end of the year or even in a few months. They have stated the cause of the slowdown. If they can ramp things up then they will be able to get a lot of them completed. It really shouldn't take too many resources to run an automated script to get the Y-DNA SNPs. But if they are at capacity for all of the testing and so on then I can see it taking as long as a full year. I don't have a bad taste for it taking so long. I have a bad taste for them never doing it in the first place when 23andme has been doing it for years but at least they are doing it now.