Friday, July 6, 2012

Benchmark Numbers for July 2012

I'm still a "numbers guy" and like to try to keep track of various numbers in the genealogy world. So this is a list of genealogy numbers as of 6 July 2012 (see the 1 January 2012 numbers at Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2012 and the 1 January 2011 numbers at 1 January 2011 Benchmark Numbers):

1) Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com/)

*  about 2.0 million paying subscribers
* 30,722 Databases in the Card Catalog (2012: 30,482; 2011: 30,006)
*  30 million family trees with over 3.2 billion profiles
* 2,107,016,069 persons in Public Member Trees (2012: 1,838,295,985: 2011: 1,263,587,509)
* 527,913,893 persons in Private Member Trees (2012: 448,817,254; 2011: 308,674,051)

2) FamilySearch (www.Familysearch.org )

* 1,217 Historical Record Collections online (2012:  1,000; 2011: 519)
* 67,479 Research Wiki articles (2012: 65,815; 2011: 46,002)
* 396 Research Courses (2012: 252; 2011: 109)
* 82 Community Trees (2012: 67; 2011: 64)

3) Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com/)

*   138 sets of original documents (counted) (2012: 318; 2011: 509)
*   94,468,065 images online (2012: 85,413,046; 2011: 71,731,610)
*  100,974,191 Memorial Pages (2012: 100,036,579)

4) World Vital Records (www.WorldVitalRecords.com)

*  28,705 collections (2012: 28,700)
*  4.6 billion names (2012: 4.2 billion)
* 158 million record images (can't find this now)
*  100 million newspaper pages (NewspaperARCHIVE)

5) Archives.com (http://www.archives.com/)

* 300  databases (2012: 258; 2011: 140)
* 2.189,220,272  records (2012: over 1.5 billion; 2011: 1,158,738,805)

6) GenealogyBank (www.GenealogyBank.com)

* over 6,100 newspapers (2012: over 5,800; 2011: 4,600)
* over 1.23 billion records (2012: 1.0 billion; 2011: 700 million)

7) Rootsweb WorldConnect (www.Rootsweb.Ancestry.com)

* 680,050,563 persons in WorldConnect family trees (2012: 667,438,708; 2011: 630,984,813 )
* 436,338 WorldConnect databases (2012: 434,739; 2011: 430,030)
* 274,797,262  records in FreeBMD database (2012: 266,785,174; 2011: 195,536,463)

8) American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/)

* almost 3,000 databases

9) MyHeritage (www.MyHeritage.com)

*   Over 63 million members (2012: 61,626,012 Members)
*  Over 23 million Family Trees (2012: 20,920,031; 2011: 16,306,687)
*   Over 1 billion individuals in family trees (2012: 906,702,547; 2011: 645,780,280)

10) Geni.com (www.Geni.com)

*  over 63 million users (2012: 60 million)
* over 100 million profiles in family trees
*  63,197,931 profiles in Geni's World Family Tree (2012: 60,629,166)

11) WeRelate wiki (www.WeRelate.org)

* over 2 million  persons in family tree

12)  WikiTree wiki (www.WikiTree.com)

*  48,000 WikiTreers (2012: 43,000)
*  3.6 million profiles (2012: 2.9 million)

13) Find My Past (www.FindMyPast.co.uk)

* about 750 million family history records (can't find info now)

14) Cyndi's List (www.CyndisList.com)

* 318,866 genealogy links (2012: 309,467; 2011: 291,330)

15) Linkpendium (www.Linkpendium.com)

*  10,025,338 genealogy links (2012: 9,948,990; 2011: 9,239,987)

16)  Find-A-Grave (www.FindAGrave.com:)

*  over 83 million grave records (2012: over 73 million)

17)  Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/:)

*  4,837,331 newspaper pages available (2012: 4,540,417)


18)  Rootsweb/Ancestry Mailing List Archives (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com)

*  38,802,845 messages

19)  Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards (http://boards.rootsweb.ancestry.com):

*  Over 17 million posts

I obtained those numbers from publicly available information on the websites. 

There are many free and subscription websites that do not publish easily findable numbers.

What other websites and what other numbers should I be benchmarking? Are some of the numbers wrong? Please tell me in Comments and I will edit the list above!

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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

3 comments:

Jacqi Stevens said...

Randy, thanks for doing all the heavy lifting in aggregating these numbers. I, too, appreciate being able to see what can be seen through numbers.

Since you asked...I noticed you published the numbers for Find-A-Grave. I'm partial to Find-A-Grave myself, but wonder what type of story can be told by comparing like critters. So...any chance there are numbers for similar websites, such as Interment.net and the new kid on the block, BillionGraves.com?

Geolover said...

Those were strange numbers for fold3.com - a precipitous decline in databases but increases in images?

David Palange said...

Randy, I recently came upon your blog through the California Genealogy newsletter. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and for giving the rundown on various genealogy websites. I am 31 years old and just started my family history search. It's been fun to share my findings with the older generation and dispel/confirm a lot of the rumors passed down by oral history. Look forward to learning more from your blog!