Ancestry.com Publishes "Ancestry Global Family History Report"

Ancestry.com has published an Ancestry Global Family History Report which provides survey results from six countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany and Sweden - not truly "global" since it covers only "first world countries").

The blog post with the survey is at http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/12/08/ancestry-global-family-history-report/ .  There is a 16 slide presentation there (I recommend expanding it to full screen).  You can also read the report as a presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/ancestry/global-family-history-report.

Statistics presented include:

*  The rise of family history (e.g., 1300% increase in USA users of paid family history since 2004)

*  Increase in average length of family histories (e.g., 15% increase in USA average length since 1984)

*  Benefits of family history for individuals and family

*  Types of records used by those researching family history (surprisingly, census records are not the most "used" by USA researchers)

*  Family connection typology

*  Research methodology

This report is interesting - please read the whole thing.

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