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.
The URL for this post is:
copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver
No comments:
Post a Comment