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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-STR testing rate slowing down?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:28:00 -0800
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> wrote:

> Is it my imagination or are we seeing a significant drop in the
> number of new Y-STR participants? There were a few months last year
> when I would frequently see new FTDNA matches/near matches, or new
> matches at Ysearch, or new matches at RG, etc. It seems like it has
> been several months since I have seen any new matches/near matches on
> any database. This suggests to me that tests for new participants
> aren't coming in. It seems that I have seen lots of previous
> participants adding new tests, but fewer new participants. How is it
> going for others?


In the Basque project at FTDNA there have been 2 new entries since I
joined, but that seems about normal to me.
My FTDNA matches/near matches has not changed in over a month (not
actually comparing before and after numbers). I've had the most
interesting results from YHRD, but their database, I believe, hasn't
grown over the last month that I have been looking for matches to my 12
marker haplotype (from the Genographic Project). YHRD provides periodic
updates though ... I don't know when the next one will occur, but I
expect the number of samples will go up world wide. I don't really see a
slow down but it is curious that the FTDNA matches/near matches hasn't
changed (much) over the last month (maybe they just haven't updated yet?).
Al

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