Reeves DNA Project Updates - 3q 2021

Its been another busy quarter here at the Reeves DNA Project. Don't get me wrong, we're always pleased to see new members joining even if that does involve some effort from our admin team. We try and respond to new memberships request within a couple of days but just occasionally one will sit pending for a day or two longer than usual, but we do get to it eventually :-) To put the dozen or so new membership request we see per quarter in context, over the same period I've received just shy of 900 notification e-mails of various types from FtDNA.

In July we registered two new kits and welcome Barbara and Jan. We also saw one member leave the project, but they thankfully decided to rejoin. That was particularly significant since this was a Y-DNA test kit Donor. The activity in August was very similar, with three new members joining the project and one deciding to leave. We welcome David, Byran and John. Thus far in September we've also added three new members and welcome Catherine, Gary and Mark.

During the past quarter we've received the results for three new Y-DNA Donor members and the results for one other kit is pending.

    Kit 823785 for John M Bartlett            added to DNA Group 20
    Kit 951918 for AS                         presently ungrouped
    Kit 959374 for DR                         added to DNA Group 10
    Kit B784120 for MP                        pending

We are particularly grateful to John for sending his Donor Permission email allowing us to name him and would encourage the other new Y-DNA donors or their representatives to make contact and allow us to identify them within TRP.

The Y-DNA test results for one of our new Y DNA Donors are currently sitting in the Project's ungrouped pool. Based on the information they provided when they joined the Reeves DNA Project, we strongly suspect they are a member of our DNA Group XX. Whilst we will automatically move Y-DNA matched results to the appropriate Project Group, we do not move unmatched results to DNA Group XX with out explicit confirmation to TRP from the donor or their proxy. If we can keep the ungrouped pool free of results we know should never expect a Reeves Y-DNA match then it makes life much easier for both the admins and those project members hoping to find a Reeves Y-DNA match. Please take a minute to read DNA Group XX's home page within TRP for information on how to provide consent. All it takes is a simple proforma e-mail as descried on the Home page.

During the past quarter we've seen no notifications for new Family Finder results (from a new at-DNA Donor) and no notification of the results from a new mt-DNA donor.

As of 30 September, we have 392 members in the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA.

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If you missed last quarter's summary the DNA Project Update for 2q2021 is available here.

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