Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder

[ArmandoR1b]

Do you have a monthly total for each month last year? I'm wondering what the trend was without the FF subclades.

I've been tracking the number of men on the public haplotree since July 2023. Here are the numbers I recorded on 1st day of each month since then.

Jul 240,247
Aug 241,552
Sep 242,830
Oct 243,469
Nov 244,314
Dec 245,254
Jan 284,791
Feb 286,704
Mar 294,205
Apr 298,243
May 323,134

Thanks. Your numbers are the same as Hygelac. That's good.

Have you kept track of total Big Y kits on a monthly basis?

I started in July 2023, when I figured out how to do so.

Jul 96245
Aug 97621
Sep 98987
Oct 100285
Nov 101378
Dec 102218
Jan 103372
Feb 104402
Mar 106474
Apr 108936
May 109538

Your numbers really help put some things into perspective. The first large uptick in total SNP tested kits is January 1. So the uptick was in December. So the count on Dec 1, 2023 of 245254 total kits - 102218 Big Y kits is 143,036. No way to tell what percentage also had Y12-Y111 and what percentage are from Geno 2.0 or similar. Let's say it's 50%, which of course it isn't but just to hopefully get a conservative idea of kits with Y12-Y111. That brings it down to ~71,518 kits with STR testing before the additional FF SNP results. That's still a good number compared to the current 109,538 Big Y kits. That comes out to an additional 65%. So FTDNA still has an edge over YFull but not quite what the Public Haplotree made it seem.

FTDNA should provide, in the Public Haplotree, the actual number of STR tested kits with SNP testing and the number of FF kits without STR testing in addition to the total number of SNP tested kits and the total number of Big Y tested kits.

There is also a number of people with STR tested people without FF. I guess they are about 25%. So we will all still see people with STR matching, even at the Y67 or Y111 level, without a haplogroup.