Two pieces of good news this morning!

1)  My great-aunt's raw data was available this morning!  Working on uploading her to GEDmatch now.

2)  My great-uncle (who already tested) gave me the contact info for his brother (another great-uncle), so I sent him an email last night, and he's already agreed to test!  It will be January before I can get his kit out to him, but that will be our third LOEWEN/FRANZ test.  :)

False Alarm!

This isn't the first time this has happened to me.  FTDNA said yesterday that my great-aunt's results had been delayed, but.... NOPE.  The second LOEWEN/FRANZ test results are in.

I'm always a bit relived when results come in as expected.  Now I've tested two of my Grandpa LOEWEN's siblings, and they match each other as expected, sharing just over the average amount of DNA that full siblings should share.  :)

I'm still waiting on the raw data, but I expect I'll have access to that tomorrow night.  Then I'll be able to compare my great-aunt to my mother and me.

Delayed! :(

Just checked on the outstanding LOEWEN/FRANZ test, and it has been delayed to 12/16-12/30.  :(  I submitted a support ticket to see if I can find out if it failed quality control, like the FOX/PERRY test did in the fall.

Results in!

Just randomly checked on the KLASSEN YDNA test we weren't expecting results back for until mid-December, and wouldn't you know it, results are in!  I've sent an email to the heads of the Mennonite DNA project to get help deciphering the results.  Hopefully I'll get a response soon!

Getting some good leads on KLASSEN segments

I heard from a gal yesterday who has strong ties to KLASSEN!  Her DNA connection to us is pretty good, enough to be fourth or fifth cousins probably.  I was able to find a KLASSEN common ancestor between her, and someone else that matches us on the same segment, so now the question is whether or not we can tie our KLASSEN line to that KLASSEN line once we get our YDNA results in December.  This segment that I found is on Chromosome 1.  Her family changed the spelling of KLASSEN to CLAUSON at some point.

Her KLASSEN/CLAUSON relatives were from Herbert, SK.

Batched!

The LOEWEN/FRANZ kit batched this afternoon, and results are expected a week earlier than I thought!  We may have results as early as December 2nd!  That's only three weeks away!

Early!

Thanks to the generosity of one of my piano parents, I was able to order the second LOEWEN/FRANZ test this morning!  That's two weeks earlier than I was expecting.  I'm expecting this test to batch this afternoon, and we should have results between December 9 and December 16.

We're still waiting on the YDNA for the KLASSEN line, and those results are expected December 9-December 23.  Just in time for Christmas, and no delays yet!

The next test I'm saving for is the second PETKAU/KLASSEN test.  That swab is still outstanding, so I'll call my grandmother and have her call her brother for me.  Since I was able to order the LOEWEN/FRANZ test two weeks early, this one will also bump up two week,s and I should be able to order it January 6th!  :)