Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2014

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 January 2014 (see last year's numbers at 1 January 2013 Benchmark Numbers and two years ago at 1 January 2012 Benchmark Numbers):

1) http://www.Ancestry.com (various, $$)

*  about 2.175 million paying subscribers (2013: about 2.0 million; 2012: about 1.7 million)
* 31,477 Databases in the Card Catalog (2013: 31,322; 2012: 30,482; 2011: 30,006)
*  55 million family trees with over 5 billion profiles (2013: 29 million trees, over 3 billion profiles)
* 2,147,483,647 persons in Public Member Trees (2013: 2,147,483,647; 2012: 1,838,295,985; 2011: 
1,263,587,509)
* 824,470,052 persons in Private Member Trees (2013: 619,560,089; 2012: 448,817,254; 2011: 308,674,051)

Note:  The Public Member Trees number has not been updated since 2013.

2) www.FamilySearch.org (various, free)

* 1,699 Historical Record Collections online (2013: 1,413; 2012: 1,000; 2011: 519)
* 75,809 Research Wiki articles (2013: 70,171; 2012: 65,815; 2011: 46,002)
* 459 Research Courses (by skill level) (2013: 432; 2012: 252; 2011: 109)
* 97 Community Trees (2013: 91; 2012: 67; 2011: 64)

*  960,171,033 FamilySearch Indexing records completed
*  476 million indexed records added in 2013
*  170 million digital images of records added in 2013
*  about 240 million names in FamilySearch Genealogies
*  about 1.0 billion profiles in FamilySearch Family Tree.
*  12 million profiles added in 2013 to FamilySearch Family Tree
*  1.8 million family photos added in 2013 to FamilySearch Family Tree

Note:  FamilySearch does not provide public information about some numbers.

3) http://www.Fold3.com (records, $$)

*   434 titles of original documents (counted)

*   426,351,717 total records
*   NN.NN million images online (2013: 101,795,063; 2012: 85,413,046; 2011: 71,731,610)
*   NN.NN million Honor Wall pages


Note: Fold3 has changed their pages so that no numbers for images, Honor Wall or Memorial Pages are provided.


4) www.WorldVitalRecords.com (records, $$)

*  about 23,210 collections (2013: 22,336; 2012: 28,700)
*  more than 4.2 billion names (2013: over 4.2 billion; 2012: 4.2 billion)
* over 158 million record images (2013: over 158 million; 2012: 158 million)
*  over 100 million newspaper pages (2013: over 100 million; 2012: 100 million)


5) http://www.Archives.com/ (records, $$)

* 456  databases (2013: 321; 2012: 268; 2011: 140)
* over 2.6 billion  records (2013: over 2.5 billion; 2012: over 1.5 billion; 2011: 1,158,738,805)


6) http://www.AmericanAncestors.org (records, $$)

* almost 3,000 online collections

*  more than 300 million persons

7) www.Rootsweb.Ancestry.com (free)

* 723,773,068 persons in WorldConnect family trees (2013: 698,798,164; 2012: 667,438,708; 2011: 630,984,813 )
* 440,417 WorldConnect databases (2013: 437,989; 2012: 434,729; 2011: 430,030)
* 297,879,501 records in FreeBMD database (2013: 282,193,587; 2012: 266,785,174; 2011: 195,536,463)


8) www.FindMyPast.com (records, $$)

* about 1.6 billion family history records (2013: about 750 million; 2012: about 750 million)
*  about 450 UK/Ireland databases
*  276 Australasia database

*  45 U.S.A. databases

9)  www.Mocavo.com (records, $$)


*  Over 175,000 Databases

10) www.CyndisList.com (links, free)

* 329,378 genealogy links (2013: 325,819; 2012: 309,467; 2011: 291,330)


11) www.Linkpendium.com (links, free)

*  10,212,253 genealogy links (2013: 10,049,723; 2012: 9,948,990; 2011: 9,239,987)

12)  www.FindAGrave.com (records, free):

*  over 110 million grave records (2013:  over 91 million; 2012: over 73 million)


13)  www.BillionGraves.com (records, free):

*  over 5.3 million grave records

14) www.GenealogyBank.com (records, $$)

* over 6,500 newspapers (2013:  over 6,400; 2012: 5,800; 2011: 4,600)
* over 1.528 billion records (2013: over 1.365 billion; 2012: over 1 billion; 2011: 700 million)

 215 million obituaries

15)  http://ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov/ (records, free):

*  6,673,511 newspaper pages available (2013: 5,206,652; 2012: 4,540,417)

16)  http://www.Newspapers.com (records, $$)

*  Over 2,000 US newspapers
*  56,873,402 pages

17)  www.NewspaperARCHIVE.com (records, $$):

*  Over 5,000 newspapers

*  Over 120 million newspaper pages

18) www.MyHeritage.com (separate trees, $$)

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


Note:  Some numbers have not been updated since early 2013.

19) www.Geni.com (shared tree, $$)

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


20) www.WeRelate.org wiki (shared tree, free)

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

21)  www.WikiTree.com wiki (shared tree, free)

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



22)  www.GeneaNet.com (separate trees, $$)

*  2 million members
*  Over 650 million entries in online family trees

23)  www.OneGreatFamily.com (shared tree, $$)

*  Over 190 million entries

24)  www.FamilyTreeDNA.com (DNA, $$):

*  663,523 DNA test results (2013: 401,057)

25)  www.23andme.com (DNA, $$):

*   about 500,000 genotyped customers

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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http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/01/genealogy-industry-benchmark-numbers.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver 


Updated:  4 January 2013, added some FamilySearch items

1 comment:

SearchShack said...

Wow! Lots of numbers here! Thinking the persons in Ancestry will always be much larger than FamilySearch because people are duplicated many times in Ancestry whereas the ultimate goal of FamilySearch is to create each person just once.