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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

How Many Persons With My Key Surnames are in Online Family Trees?

I wondered the other day "how many persons with my key surnames are in online family trees?"  In other words, how many Seaver, Carringer, Richmond, and Auble (my four grandparents' surnames) persons are in trees?

I did this by differentiating between shared family trees (where historical persons should have just one profile) and isolated family trees (where many different trees may have the same person).

Here are my results (by exact surname, and then by tree site):

1)  SEAVER surname (only this spelling):

Shared Trees:

**  FamilySearch Family Tree:  8,665
**  Geni.com ($$):  1,592
**  WikiTree:  592

Isolated Trees:

**  Ancestry Member Trees ($$):  87,523
**  MyHeritage ($$):  43,468
**  RootsWeb WorldConnect:  16,374
** My RootsMagic Tree:  5,283

2)  CARRINGER surname (only this spelling):

Shared Trees:

**  FamilySearch Family Tree:  527
**  Geni.com ($$):  279
**  WikiTree:  126

Isolated Trees:

**  Ancestry Member Trees ($$):  13,536
**  MyHeritage ($$):  5,168
**  RootsWeb WorldConnect:  3,683
** My RootsMagic Tree:  212

3)  RICHMOND surname (only this spelling):

Shared Trees:

**  FamilySearch Family Tree:   74,239
**  Geni.com ($$):  19,533
**  WikiTree:  1,899

Isolated Trees:

**  Ancestry Member Trees ($$):  1,324,622
**  MyHeritage ($$):  437,134
**  RootsWeb WorldConnect:  147,559
** My RootsMagic Tree:  115

4)  AUBLE surname (only this spelling):

Shared Trees:

**  FamilySearch Family Tree:  1,152
**  Geni.com ($$):  437
**  WikiTree:  25

Isolated Trees:

**  Ancestry Member Trees ($$):  16,030
**  MyHeritage ($$):  6,392
**  RootsWeb WorldConnect: 2,428
** My RootsMagic Tree:  270

The major conclusions I draw from the above are that:

*  FamilySearch Family Tree is probably the best Shared Tree site to search for persons with my surnames
*  Ancestry Member Trees ($$) is probably the best Isolated Tree site to search for persons with my surnames
*  RootsWeb WorldConnect is the largest FREE Isolated tree site available

What do your results look like?


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