Coming Soon: Y-DNA Haplogroups for Family Finder

[Dewsloth]

Holy cow.  I saved the results from May 10 and just checked again, this morning.  A massive jump:
May 10 -- MAY 23
6 R-FT88174 1300 BCE 48 49
7 R-FT354149 1400 BCE 232 271
8 R-Z17112 1450 BCE 860 998
9 R-S4268 1450 BCE 1,125 1,265 --S4268 and S4281 are where I am seeing new FF matches show up
10 R-S4281 1600 BCE 1,378 1,717
11 R-FGC11833 1900 BCE 1,407 1,747
12 R-DF88 2100 BCE 1,526 1,895
13 R-DF19 2550 BCE 2,092 2,564

[ArmandoR1b]

My biggest frustration is now way worse. R-L151 Branch Participants is up to 7713 from 3214 since May 11 when I first started tracking the haplogroup. The vast majority would be R-ZZ12_1 under R-DF27 if R-ZZ12_1 had been in the FF test.

[Mitchell-Atkins]

Between Sunday morning and this morning they have added 15,907 Y-DNA assignments. 329 are from Big Y.

I think they have done on average 8,347 FF kits per day since May 1.

Can someone else check the counts they have?

Here is what I have tracked
1 May  341631
4 May  350233
8 May 360955
10 May 367768
11 May 382000
13 May 419150
16 May 426071
18 May 476960
18 May...later that day 490393
19 May 492435
21 May 493342
22 May 498586
23 May 508342

[Webb]

It appears that FTDNA are working on the 2016 FF tests as one of my 25 marker matches who was M269 yesterday is now R-FGC12057.

[sirdan]

I did my calculations on my own matches list and we are pretty at the end of the process.

I don't know what we will see with Autosomal Transfers though

[ArmandoR1b]

They started processing 2016 kits about 2 days ago per 2 posts in this thread. If everyone keeps an eye out for 2015 kits and records the count in the Haplotree then we should get an idea how much longer until they finish all years based on how long it takes to process 2016 kits. They have been processing a lot of kits lately even though there have been slow days and hopefully the 2016 rate is the new rate.

[Mitchell-Atkins]

Between Sunday morning and this morning they have added 15,907 Y-DNA assignments. 329 are from Big Y.

I think they have done on average 8,347 FF kits per day since May 1.

Can someone else check the counts they have?

Here is what I have tracked
1 May  341631
4 May  350233
8 May 360955
10 May 367768
11 May 382000
13 May 419150
16 May 426071
18 May 476960
18 May...later that day 490393
19 May 492435
21 May 493342
22 May 498586
23 May 508342

24 May 529864

US and England are neck and neck for first place
United States 21,418 10.30%
England 21,316 10.25%

[Mabrams]

I would be rooting for the US, but I know many of those kits are from men who are not Indigenous American.  Misplaced IMO. 

I have not seen any 2015s yet, but nearly so.  One was purchased in 2015 but completed in Jan, 2016. 

My projection is for around 700,000 (including the BigYs).  You saw it here first!!   Based upon the extrapolation of the decrease of my R-M269s.   

But....why listen to me?  I projected 315,000 FF kits back on April 22.  Message #271.  
(I still dont know what I did wrong there.  Maybe the Autosomal Transfers are not included in the total FTDNA testers total). 

[ArmandoR1b]

Between Sunday morning and this morning they have added 15,907 Y-DNA assignments. 329 are from Big Y.

I think they have done on average 8,347 FF kits per day since May 1.

Can someone else check the counts they have?

Here is what I have tracked
1 May  341631
4 May  350233
8 May 360955
10 May 367768
11 May 382000
13 May 419150
16 May 426071
18 May 476960
18 May...later that day 490393
19 May 492435
21 May 493342
22 May 498586
23 May 508342

24 May 529864

US and England are neck and neck for first place
United States 21,418 10.30%
England 21,316 10.25%

I wish all countries had at least 10,000 kits with Y-DNA SNP testing. Only 6 have more than that.

[Mitchell-Atkins]

I'm guessing we end up at around 800,000.

[ArmandoR1b]

I have not seen any 2015s yet, but nearly so.  One was purchased in 2015 but completed in Jan, 2016. 

My projection is for around 700,000 (including the BigYs).  You saw it here first!!   Based upon the extrapolation of the decrease of my R-M269s.  

That's good and bad that you have seen one completed in Jan 2016. Maybe sometime tomorrow they start on 2015. That would mean they could do a year in 3 days now. That would also mean that 2016 only had about 31,000 kits based on the counts provided by Mitchell-Atkins.

I had mentioned on May 18 that there was a possibility of 150,000 kits remaining but that there were a lot of ifs. That would have put the total at 642,435. It does look like there are 180,000 kits left now which would put the total at about 710,00. Only time will tell but it seems we might know the answer in about 3 weeks.

[Mabrams]

"That's good and bad that you have seen one completed in Jan 2016. "

minor correction. Completed Feb 4, 2016.
Updated yesterday.

[Webb]

I don’t know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my 37 marker matches are from 2012 when the dna surname projects were really popular, and there was a large number of people testing. This is when I tested myself. I think around four of these matches also did FF. I don’t know which version of the test was used around 2012.

[Mitchell-Atkins]

I don’t know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my 37 marker matches are from 2012 when the dna surname projects were really popular, and there was a large number of people testing.  This is when I tested myself.  I think around four of these matches also did FF.  I don’t know which version of the test was used around 2012.

There's a pre 2012, 25 marker match that I've always wondered about.  Last name Bowles.  Attempts to contact this individual were not fruitful.  If he end ups Z49- then at least it will rule him out.

[Mabrams]

I don’t know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my 37 marker matches are from 2012 when the dna surname projects were really popular, and there was a large number of people testing.  This is when I tested myself.  I think around four of these matches also did FF.  I don’t know which version of the test was used around 2012.

In 2012, FTDNA was using an Affymetrix chip.   I suppose this is the V1.

In 2015, FTDNA switched over to an Illumina chip.   V2.   

Most or all Affymetrix testers were retested via the Illumina chip by 2015.  Chip02.   But I am not sure about this.   I see different info and dates on different views.   And my memory is foggy about 2015.   I know my 2011 test has been re-dated to 2015.   I have a BigY so I will not be able to track FF Y updating on my kit.

There are lot of kits dated 2015.  It's going to take a while for FTDNA to get through that year.  Unless they are processed by their original order date year.

Anyone with better info, please correct me!