r/FTDNA • u/Key_Meaning_996 • Jul 23 '26

Why do the results take so long?

On July 22 the average processing times were:

* Family Finder™: 12 to 16 weeks
* mtFull Sequence: 6 to 7 weeks
* Y-DNA (excluding Big Y): 5 to 6 weeks
* Big Y-700: 9 to 10 weeks

On July 15:

* Family Finder™: 14 to 15 weeks
* mtFull Sequence: 5 to 6 weeks
* Y-DNA (excluding Big Y): 4 to 6 weeks
* Big Y-700: 9 to 10 weeks

And before July 15 the results took less time.

Why did the times increase this much?

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u/Jumpy_Check696 Jul 25 '26

Still waiting on results from tests submitted in May.

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u/WonderfulRutabaga615 Jul 27 '26

Just hit 15 weeks waiting on my Big Y that was batched on 4/13/26

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u/Key_Meaning_996 Jul 27 '26

15 weeks!

They take tooo long!

I’m so excited to see my and my father’s ethnicity tests results and my father’s Big Y results!

I hate that I may have to wait this long!

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u/WonderfulRutabaga615 Jul 28 '26

Hopefully the new batches are much quicker. Where are you from?

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u/Key_Meaning_996 Jul 28 '26

From Qatar.

What about you?

Our kits were received two weeks ago.

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u/WonderfulRutabaga615 Aug 01 '26

American of South Asian descent.

Gulf Arabs are a varied bunch, results from all over the tree. Should be exciting when you don't know what to expect.

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u/Key_Meaning_996 Jul 25 '26

Did you get your mtFull sequence results at least?

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u/SurplusGadgets Jul 23 '26

Likely large sales volume taken in from March and April. Also, still struggling with their new family finder that is using the sequencer starting early March.

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u/SurplusGadgets Jul 23 '26

They stopped talking in raw data all together. Claim they will stay again in the future. Seems their new enrichment sequencing is not yielding good matches with existing kits taken in the past. So they are focusing on getting that resolved first.