Saturday, October 21, 2017

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Top 10 (or 20) Surnames in Your Family Tree

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) 
Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database.

2)  Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task.

3)  Tell us what the top 10 (or 20)  surnames are in your database and, if possible, how many entries.  How many different surnames are in your family tree?

4)  Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on Facebook, or in Google Plus Stream post.

NOTE:  If you can't figure out how to do this in your GMP (Genealogy Management Program), use the Help button in your program and search for "count surnames" then follow directions.  

Here's mine:

I'm going to use RootsMagic 7 because that's where I'm doing my current additions, deletions and editing and is my most up-to-date collection.  In RootsMagic 7, go to Reports, then Lists and scroll down to "Surname Statistics List."  I then chose "Frequency of Surnames" from the list presented.
  Here's the top 20:

That took about 40 seconds and I have a 172 page list!  I didn't count every one of them - there are 172 pages with 39 names per page.  That's a grand total of about 6,700 surnames in my database with 48,875 persons.  The top 20 are, with birth date ranges:

*  SEAVER - 5,364 persons, from 1608 to 2017

*  [unknown] - 1,396 persons, from 747 to 2016
*  BUCK - 771 persons, from 1577 to 2009

*  SMITH - 744 persons, from 1526 to 2015
* VAUX - 489 persons, from 1620 to 2013

*  FITZ RANDOLPH - 483 persons, from 1420 to 1884
*  DILL - 480 persons, from 1629 to 2014
*  SEVER - 454 persons, from 1673 to 2016
*  NEWTON - 331 persons, from 1600 to 2008
*  CHAMPLIN - 302 persons, from 1615 to 1917

*  RICHMAN - 302 persons, from 1598 to 1985
*  AUBLE - 298 persons, from 1770 to 2014
*  CULVER - 264 persons, from 1700 to 2010
*  WHITE - 259 persons, from 1570 to 2015
*  BROWN - 258 persons, from 1580 to 2000

*  BRESEE - 256 persons, from 1650 to 1900
*  KEMP - 215 persons, from 1672 to 2016
*  HAWKINS - 214 persons, from 1570 to 1975
*  CARRINGER - 212 persons, from 1758 to 2015
*  McKNEW - 207 persons, from 1640 to 2007

NOTE:  We've done this before. See  Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many Surnames in Your Family Tree Database? (on 3 September 2016) for the last time we did this for SNGF.  My list has changed a little since I added 2,168 persons since then, including 278 SEAVER and 94 AUBLE persons.

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Surname Saturday -- LNU (Elizabeth married Samuel Ayers, England (?) to New England to New Jersey)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #2037, who is Elizabeth LNU (1673-????) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation of this LNU family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-????)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1862-1952)

30.  James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902)
31.  Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874)

62.  Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907)
63.  Elizabeth Putman (1818-1895)

126.  John Putman (1785-1863)
127.  Sarah Martin (1792-1860)

254.  Mulford Martin (1763-????)
255.  Betsey Rolfe (1766-????)

508.  Thomas Martin (1737-1767)
509.  Elizabeth Ayers (1745-1767)

1018.  James Ayers (1716-1794)
1019.  Hope Bloomfield (1716-1776)

2036.  Samuel Ayers, born 1669 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died after 1740 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He was the son of 4072. Obadiah Ayers and 4073. Hannah Pike.  He married about 1698 in New Jersey, United States.
2037.  Elizabeth LNU, born about 1673 in Massachusetts, United States, died probably in New Jersey.

Children of Samuel Ayers and Elizabeth are (all born in Woodbridge, N.J.):
*  Rhoda Ayers (1700-????).
*  David Ayers (1702-????)
*  Elizabeth Ayers (1703-????).
*  Samuel Ayers (1707-????)
*  Rachel Ayers (1710-1744), married 1741 Mulford Martin (1713-1744).
*  Jacob Ayers (1710-????)
*  Benjamin Ayers (1712-????).
James Ayers (1716-1794), married 1744 Hope Bloomfield (1716-1776).

I have no reliable information about Elizabeth's maiden name or parentage.  Some Ancestry trees and FamilySearch Family Tree indicates that her parents were Simon Tuttle and Sarah Cogswell.  However, in the Tuttle book that Elizabeth Tuttle married a Samuel Ayers, son of Peter Ayers, and had children different from the children listed above, and died in 1752 in Haverhill, Mass.

So, to me, she is still an LNU.

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