I was curious to see how many of each type of database that are available on http://www.ancestry.com/, so I made this list:
As of today, 22 December 2009, Ancestry.com has 29,356 databases in their Card Catalog. The number of databases (not number of records) in each category include:
* 345 in Census and Voter Lists
* 1,003 in Birth, Marriage and Death
* 374 in Military
* 257 in Immigration and Emigration
* 9 in Family Trees
* 1,339 in Newspapers and Periodicals
* 1,431 in Member and Directory Lists
* 23,724 in Stories, Memories and Histories
* 380 in Court, Land, Wills and Financial
* 439 in Reference Materials and Finding Aids
* 22 in Pictures
* 33 in Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers
That sums to 29,356! So it appears each database is in only one specific category. I've always wondered about that!
I checked all of those categories using Old Search. New Search has a different number of databases in many of the categories - for instance, New Search has 439 databases in Census and voter Lists, while Old Search has 345. Why the difference?
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Was that just for a US Ancestry subscription or a World wide one?
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