Traffic report -- The Top 40 Genealogy web sites

www.alexa.com compiles traffic reports for Internet web sites, and has catalogued them by subject.

The Genealogy traffic report is at http://www.alexa.com/browse?&CategoryID=366. The top 10 genealogy sites are listed on the right, and the categories of genealogy sites are on the left. You can get higher numbers by clicking on the link available. I can't find any blogs in the categories - they must be hiding somewhere!

The Top 40 (remember the Top 40 song lists from the 1950's?) for Genealogy are:

1. www.ancestry.com (1417 overall ranking)
2. www.rootsweb.com (2398)
3. www.legacy.com (3185)
4. www.genealogy.com (8909)
5. www.familysearch.org (11239)
6. www.newspapersearch.com (18959)
7. http://genforum.genealogy.com (8909, part of #4)
8. www.geneanet.org (22066)
9. http://boards.ancestry.com (1417, part of #1)
10. http://brandis.com.au (41084)

11. http://genealogy.about.com (83, part of About.com)
12. www.jewishgen.org (47867)
13. www.familytreemaker.com (8909, part of #4)
14. www.cyndislist.com (54874)
15. www.ellisisland.org (58541)
16. www.worldvitalrecords.com (69562)
17. www.theroyalforums.org (71714)
18. www.familytreedna.com (71336)
19. www.kabalarians.com (77656)
20. www.genealogics.org (53927, part of another site?)

21. www.onegreatfamily.com (96611)
22. www.casareal.es (122799, a Spanish site)
23. www.last-names.net (109021, part of another site?)
24. www.thepeerage.com (125383)
25. www.eogn.com (120260)
26. http://searches.rootsweb.com (2398, part of #2)
27. www.recordsireland.ie (168833)
28. www.cousinconnect.com (146191)
29. www.kindredkonnections.com (130209)
30. www.tribalpages.com (135067)

31. www.genealogylinks.net (138284)
32. www.gencircles.com (151841)
33. www.distantcousins.com (145186)
34. www.newenglandancestors.org (177124)
35. www.1901census.nationarchives.gov.uk (29601, part of another site)
36. www.genopro.com (201486)
37. www.scotroots.com (173029)
38. http://genealogue.blogspot.com (182340)
39. www.lineages.co.uk (215033)
40. www.bh.org.il (274257, an Israel site)

I don't understand the numbers completely - some individual sites are part of a suite of sites owned by the same person, and their numbers are lumped together.

There are quite a few sites there that I have never visited, but I'm going to just to see what they offer.

There are several of my "favorite" genealogy sites that are not on the list. So I looked for them:

www.usgenweb.org (389785)

www.linkpendium.com (371657)

www.stevemorse.org (165686, must be part of another site)

It is sad that more researchers don't visit these sites, but waste their time on some of the other sites that don't provide original records or advanced search capabilities.