Reeves DNA Project Updates - 4q 2019
The fourth quarter of 2019 has been much busier than the previous couple of quarters. At the end of December the project has 346 member, an increase of eleven during the quarter.
In October we welcomed Kate (Kathleen, who manages a kit on behalf of her father), Steve and Al. November was a little quieter, with John and Aurla joining us. Thus far in December we've seen five new members join us with two further requests being progressed as the month closes. We welcomed Ron, Heather, Marilyn, Mark, Kevin and Sue (who manages a kit on behalf of her mother) during December.
During the past quarter we've received the results for five Y-DNA Donor members of the project and four matched with pre-existing groups.
Kit 451129 for TB ungrouped
Kit 905377 for JR added to DNA Group 06A
Kit 917412 for AR added to DNA Group 08
Kit 917751 for JR added to DNA Group 08
Kit 918559 for RR added to DNA Group 08We hope these individuals or their representatives will make contact and allow us to identify them within TRP. We've seen no new Family Finder results and no new mt-DNA results for Reeves DNA Project members during the past quarter.As we end 2019, the project has 216 members who have taken some level of Y-DNA test and 181 of these tests are of a Y-37 or higher resolution. The Y-37 test is now considered the entry level Y-DNA test within this project to allow matching to be undertaken with reasonable certainty. These 216 members are currently organised into 19 active groups of matching results, along with a large pool of presently unmatched results.1 Our largest group, DNA Group 03 has 38 members and the smallest just one, following the withdrawal from FtDNA of their match partner's results.
Anniversary Reprise
Over the past year we’ve been looking back fifteen years to 2004 and the very early days of the Reeves DNA Project .. ..Barry Reeves created a handful of web page for the project back in the middle of February 2004 and in April 2004 the first set of Y-DNA results was posted to the Project's then new website. It was July 2004 before the first matching pair of Y-DNA results within our project was announced. This became DNA Group 01. We had to wait until mid December 2004 for the second matching pair of results DNA Group 02.
Over the intervening 15 years the number members of the Reeves DNA Project has grown to 346 and the total number of Y-DNA tests taken with FtDNA is probably in excess of 700,000. (See Footnote 2 ). Unlike many of the subsequent groups of matches formed within our Project, these first two groups still each have just two members. What wasn’t evident then but is clearer now, as the overall database at FtDNA has grown, is that both these pairings also have a strong affinity with results sharing other surnames.
If you’re interested to see how the Reeves DNA Project has grown over the past fifteen years, then please take a look at page DNA_Project_News where the key events are listed.
If you missed last quarter's summary the DNA Project Update for 3q2019 is available here.
1
Whilst the project shows 20 numeric groups, following the merger of two groups in October 2016, Group 17 is now permanently retired.
2
As of June 2019 The DNA Geek’s blog notes “FTDNA reports only about 716,000 yDNA records and 336,000 mtDNA records in their database”, but note this is based on estimated numbers and not on numbers reported by FtDNA themselves. https://thednageek.com/genealogical-database-growth-slows/#comment-27974