tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post1475575233168616751..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Which Source Have You Used the Most?Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-6172005906904396472015-03-22T13:29:03.357-07:002015-03-22T13:29:03.357-07:00My background is early USA, England, Canada, with ...My background is early USA, England, Canada, with a smattering in northern Europe - Netherlands & Wurttemberg. <br />Looking at the Source Report (Legacy), FindAGrave as source only 41 times. Biggest is the 1900 US Census, followed closely by 1910 (71) and 1880 (87). But I also found 66 citations for the source of "Goshenhoppen Register" in PA, and 65 citations using source of "Marriages, white County, Illinois, USA". <br />I need to also clean up my sources somewhat - I'm doing the Do-Over this year, and standardizing my files, sources, etc. Nice little exercise. I've saved the report, as I can see some errors in several! :) Celia Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096301290962083820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-6663032881879217282015-03-21T22:11:13.431-07:002015-03-21T22:11:13.431-07:00This was an interesting exercise. I used an old ve...This was an interesting exercise. I used an old version of Family Tree Maker. It was easier than I thought to figure out the answers. And the overall stats were better than I expected, so <i>I feel good tonight!!</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-57351082292518365402015-03-21T21:33:54.784-07:002015-03-21T21:33:54.784-07:00I use Legacy 8 Deluxe, and to find the main statis...I use Legacy 8 Deluxe, and to find the main statistics was fairly simple, but rather than search through the list of over 3000 master sources to find the ones with the most entries, I used Excel to do the work for me. For details on how I did this, check out my post <br /><a href="http://loiswillis.com/?p=3741" rel="nofollow">Finding source citation statistics in Legacy 8 Deluxe</a>Lois Willishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17675575968563483040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-36957244240780405062015-03-21T21:31:19.941-07:002015-03-21T21:31:19.941-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lois Willishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17675575968563483040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-6536687402073161972015-03-21T21:13:58.670-07:002015-03-21T21:13:58.670-07:00I also use RootsMagic. I have 6,484 people in my ...I also use RootsMagic. I have 6,484 people in my database with 14,466 events. For that I have 1241 master sources and 7,193 citations. So my source/person ratio is 1.11. My events to citations ratio is 2.01.<br /><br />My most common source is Findagrave.com with 575 records. I would have more census records if I didn’t split them out by county in each census year. However, I have a 113 pages of census records.<br /> Lisa S. Gorrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06086125812111254305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-51619848667944635722015-03-21T14:29:07.979-07:002015-03-21T14:29:07.979-07:00FTM 2014 only tells me that I have 583 source &quo...FTM 2014 only tells me that I have 583 source "groups." The only way to know how many times I've used each source is apparently to print out a usage list and count them. Not gonna happen!GeneGinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05172142394579145655noreply@blogger.com