Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 July 2013

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 1 July 2013 (see January 2013 numbers at Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2013, and the January 2012 numbers at 1 January 2012 Benchmark Numbers):

1) http://www.Ancestry.com ($$)

*  about 2.5 million paying subscribers (Jan 2013: 2.0 million, Jan 2012: about 1.7 million)
* 31,350 Databases in the Card Catalog (Jan 2013: 31,322; Jan 2012: 30,482; Jan 2011: 30,006)
*  46 million family trees with over 4 billion profiles (Jan 2013: 29 million profiles; Jan 2012: 29 million trees, over 3 billion profiles)
* 2,147,483,647 persons in Public Member Trees (Jan 2013: 2,147,483,647; Jan 2012: 1,838,295,985; Jan 2011: 1,263,587,509)
* 734,967,533 persons in Private Member Trees (Jan 2013:  619,560,089; Jan 2012: 448,817,254; Jan 2011: 308,674,051)

2) www.FamilySearch.org (free)

* 1,594 Historical Record Collections online (Jan 2013: 1,413; Jan 2012: 1000; Jan 2011: 519)
* 74,070 Research Wiki articles (Jan 2013: 70,171; Jan 2012: 65,815; Jan 2011: 46,002)
* 457 Research Courses (by level) (Jan 2013: 432; Jan 2012: 252; Jan 2011: 109)
* 95 Community Trees (Jan 2013: 91; Jan 2012: 67; Jan 2011: 64)

3) http://www.Fold3.com ($$)

*   165 sets of original documents (counted) (Jan 2013: 150; Jan 2012: 218; Jan 2011: 509)
*   ???? images online (Jan 2013: 101,795,063; Jan 2012: 85,413,046; Jan 2011: 71,731,610)
*  405,201,900 total records online
*  99,000,000+ Memorial Pages (Jan 2013:  99,000,000+; Jan 2012: 100,036,579)

4) www.WorldVitalRecords.com ($$)

*  23,220 collections (Jan 2013: 22,336; Jan 2012: 28,700)
*  more than 158 million images
*  more than 4.2 billion names (Jan 2013: >4.2 billion; Jan 2012: 4.2 billion)
* over 375 million record images (Jan 2013: over 158 million; Jan 2012: 158 million)
*  over 100 million newspaper pages (Jan 2013:  over 100 million; Jan 2012: 100 million)

5) http://www.Archives.com/ ($$)

* 438 collections (Jan 2013: 321; Jan 2012: 268; Jan 2011: 140)
* over 2.5 billion  records (Jan 2013: over 2.5 billion; Jan 2012: over 1.5 billion; Jan 2011: 1,158,738,805)

6) www.GenealogyBank.com ($$)

* over 6,500 newspapers (Jan 2013: over 6,400; Jan 2012: 5,800; Jan 2011: 4,600)
* over 1.433 billion records (Jan 2013: 1.365 billion; Jan 2012: over 1 billion; Jan 2011: 700 million)
*  215 million obituaries

7) www.Rootsweb.Ancestry.com (free)

* 710,863,958 persons in WorldConnect family trees (Jan 2013: 698,798,164; Jan 2012:
L 667,438,708; Jan 2011: 630,984,813 )
* 439,208 WorldConnect databases (Jan 2013: 437,989; Jan 2012: 434,729; Jan 2011: 430,030)
* ?????  records in FreeBMD database (Jan 2013: 282,193,587; Jan 2012: 266,785,174; Jan 2011: 195,536,463) - moved to Ancestry.com

8) http://www.AmericanAncestors.org ($$)

*  about 700 databases 
*  more than 200 million records for New England, New York and beyond

9) www.MyHeritage.com ($$, from About page)

*   over 75 million Members (Jan 2013: > 72 million; Jan 2012: 61,626,012)
*  27 million Family Trees (Jan 2013: 27 million; Jan 2012: 20,920,031; Jan 2011: 16,306,687)
*   1.5 billion individuals in family trees (Jan 2013: 1.5 billion; Jan 2012: 906,702,547; Jan 2011: 645,780,280)

10) www.Geni.com ($$)

*  about 7 million users (Jan 2013: almost 7 million; Jan 2012: almost 6 million)
* ???? million profiles in family trees (Jan 2013: over 100 million; Jan 2012: over 100 million)
*  over 70 million profiles in Geni's World Family Tree (Jan 2013: 65 million; Jan 2012: 60,629,166)

11) www.WeRelate.org wiki (free, from About page)

* over 2 million persons in family tree (Jan 2013: over 2.3 million; Jan 2012: over 2 million)

12)  www.WikiTree.com wiki (free)

*  80,000 WikiTreers (Jan 2013:  57,000; Jan 2012: 43,000)
*  5.3 million profiles (Jan 2013: 4.2 million; Jan 2012: 2.9 million)

13) www.FindMyPast.co.uk  ($$)

* about 1.6 billion family history records (Jan 2013: about 750 million; Jan 2012: about 750 million)
*  850 million US records (Jan 2013: 24 U.S.A. databases)

14) www.CyndisList.com (free)

* 327,428 genealogy links (Jan 2013: 325,819; Jan 2012: 309,467; Jan 2011: 291,330)

15) www.Linkpendium.com(free)

*  10,185,513 genealogy links (Jan 2013: 10,049,723; Jan 2012: 9,948,990; Jan 2011: 9,239,987)

16)  www.FindAGrave.com (free):

*  over 101 million grave records (Jan 2013: over 91 million; Jan 2012: over 73 million)

17)  www.BillionGraves.com (free):

*  over 4 million names

18)  http://ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov/ (free):

*  6,025,474 newspaper pages available (Jan 2013: 5,206,652; Jan 2012: 4,540,417)

19)  www.Newspapers.com ($$):

*  Over 1200 newspapers across the US
*  Over 44 million pages

20)  www.NewspaperARCHIVE.com ($$):

*  Over 5,000 newspapers
*  Over 120 million newspaper pages

21)  www.FamilyTreeDNA.com ($$):

*  639,932 DNA test results
I obtained those numbers from publicly available information on the websites.  Several sites have not updated their numbers, or have hidden the numbers.

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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