Friday, January 1, 2016

Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2016

I'm still a "numbers guy" and like to try to keep track of various numbers in the genealogy world. So this is a list of genealogy numbers as of 1 January 2016 (see the last four year's numbers at Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2015Genealogy Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 20141 January 2013 Benchmark Numbers, and 1 January 2012 Benchmark Numbers).

1) http://www.Ancestry.com (various, $$)

*  about 2.243 million paying subscribers (2015: 2.125 million; 2014: 2.175 million; 2013: about 2.0 million; 2012: about 1.7 million)
* 32,467 Databases in the Card Catalog (2015: 32,529; 2014: 31,477; 2013: 31,322; 2012: 30,482; 2011: 30,006)
*  about 70 million family trees with over 6 billion profiles (2015: 60 million trees, over 6 billion profiles; 2014:  55 million trees, over 5 billion profiles; 2013: 29 million trees, over 3 billion profiles)
* 2,147,483,647 persons in Public Member Trees (2015: same as 2014; 2014; same as 2013; 2013: 2,147,483,647; 2012: 1,838,295,985; 2011: 
1,263,587,509)
* 1,193,868,492 persons in Private Member Trees (2015; 1,060,127,515; 2014:  824,470,052; 2013: 619,560,089; 2012: 448,817,254; 2011: 308,674,051)

Note:  The Public Member Trees number has not been updated since 2013.

2) www.FamilySearch.org (various, free)

* 2,054 Historical Record Collections online (2015: 2019; 2014: 1699; 2013: 1,413; 2012: 1,000; 2011: 519)
* 82,874 Research Wiki articles (2015: 82,120; 2014: 75,809; 2013: 70,171; 2012: 65,815; 2011: 46,002)
* 639 Research Courses (by skill level) (2015: 674; 2014: 450; 2013: 432; 2012: 252; 2011: 109)

*  110 million indexed records added in 2015

*  5.31 billion indexed names
*  about 1.1 billion profiles in FamilySearch Family Tree. (2015: 1.1 billion; 2014: 1.0 billion)
*  9.0 million family photos in FamilySearch Family Tree (2015: 4.9 million; 2013: 1.8 million)

Note:  FamilySearch does not provide public information about some numbers.

3) http://www.Fold3.com (records, $$)

*   469 titles of original documents (counted) (2015: 445; 2014:  434)
*   468,250,775 total records (2015: 437,779,797; 2014: 426,351,717)4) http://www.Archives.com/ (records, $$)


* 321  databases (2015: 508; 2014: 456; 2013: 321; 2012: 268; 2011: 140)
* over 4.3 billion  records (2015: over 4 billion; 2014: 2.6 billion; 2013: over 2.5 billion; 2012: over 1.5 billion; 2011: 1,158,738,805)

5) www.MyHeritage.com (separate trees, $$)


*  6.362 billion historical records
*   1.666 billion individuals in MyHeritage family trees (2015: 1.412 billion; 2014: over 1.5 billion; 2013: 1.5 billion; 2012: 906,702,547; 2011: 645,780,280)


6) www.WorldVitalRecords.com (records, $$)

*  about 21,675 collections (2015: 22,810; 2014: 23,210; 2013: 22,336; 2012: 28,700)
*  more than 4.2 billion names (2015: same as 2015, 2014: over 4.2 billion; 2013: over 4.2 billion; 2012: 4.2 billion)
* over 158 million record images (2015: same as 2014; 2014: over 158 million; 2013: over 158 million; 2012: 158 million)
*  over 100 million newspaper pages (2015: same as 2014; 2014: over 100 million; 2013: over 100 million; 2012: 100 million)


7) http://www.AmericanAncestors.org (records, $$)

* 441 online collections (2015: almost 400)
*  ??? million records (2015: more than 247 million)

8) www.Rootsweb.Ancestry.com (free)

* 782,758,954 persons in WorldConnect family trees (2015: 751,736,012; 2014:  723,773,068; 2013: 698,798,164; 2012: 667,438,708; 2011: 630,984,813 )
* 443,388 WorldConnect databases (2015: 442,391; 2014: 440,417; 2013: 437,989; 2012: 434,729; 2011: 430,030)
* 320,506,958 records in FreeBMD database (2015: 309,880,224; 2014: 297,879,501; 2013: 282,193,587; 2012: 266,785,174; 2011: 195,536,463)


9) www.FindMyPast.com (records, $$)

* over 2.0 billion family history records (2015: over 2.0 billion; 2014: 1.6 billion; 2013: about 750 million; 2012: about 750 million)
*  796 United Kingdom/Ireland databases (2015: 581; 2014: 450)
*  318 Australasia databases (2015: 269; 2014: 276)

*  655 U.S.A. databases (2015: 558; 2014: 45)

10)  www.Mocavo.com (records, $$)

*  423,718 Databases (2015: 423,803; 2014: about 175,000)

11) www.CyndisList.com (links, free)

* 333,949 genealogy links (2015: 295,359; 2014:  329,378; 2013: 325,819; 2012: 309,467; 2011: 291,330)


12) www.Linkpendium.com (links, free) 

*  10,400,108 genealogy links (2015: 10,377,437; 2014: 10,212,253; 2013: 10,049,723; 2012: 9,948,990; 2011: 9,239,987)

13)  www.FindAGrave.com (records, free):

*  over 138 million grave records (2015: over 121 million; 2014:  over 110 million; 2013:  over 91 million; 2012: over 73 million)

14)  www.BillionGraves.com (records, free):

*  over 18,2 million grave records (2015: 10.3 million; 2014: over 5.3 million)

15) www.GenealogyBank.com (records, $$)

* over 7,000 newspapers (2015: 0ver 6,500' 2014: over 6,500; 2013:  over 6,400; 2012: 5,800; 2011: 4,600)
* over 1.929 billion records (2015: over 1.727 billion; 2014: over 1.528 billion; 2013: over 1.365 billion; 2012: over 1 billion; 2011: 700 million)

 228 million obituaries (2015: 215 million; 2014: 215 million)

16)  http://ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov/ (records, free):

*  10,292,163 newspaper pages available (2015: 8,831,604; 2014: 6,673,511; 2013: 5,206,652; 2012: 4,540,417)

17)  http://www.Newspapers.com (records, $$)

*  Over 3,714 US newspapers (2015: over 3,400; 2014: over 200)

18)  www.NewspaperARCHIVE.com (records, $$):

*  Over 7,395 newspapers (2015: over 6,200; 2014: over 5,000)

19) www.Geni.com (shared tree, $$)

*  almost 7 million users (2015: almost 7 million; 2014: almost 7 million; 2013: almost 7 million; 2012: almost 6 million)
* 153.9 million profiles in family trees (2015: 144.1 million; 2014: NNN million; 2013: over 100 million; 2012: over 100 million)
*  99.0 million profiles in Geni's World Family Tree (2015: 83.1 million; 2014: over 70 million; 2013: over 65 million; 2012: 60,629,166)


20) www.WeRelate.org wiki (shared tree, free)

* over 2.692 million persons in family tree (2015: over 2.655 million; 2014: over 2.3 million; 2013: over 2.3 million; 2012: over 2 million)

21)  www.WikiTree.com wiki (shared tree, free)

*  288,943 WikiTreers (2015: 233,297; 2014:  over 80,000; 2013: 57,000; 2012: 43,000)
*  11,268,773 profiles (2015: 8,835,233; 2014:  over 5.3 million; 2013: 4.2 million; 2012: 2.9 million)




22)  www.GeneaNet.org (separate trees, $$)

*  2 million members (2015: over 2 million; 2014:  2 million)
*  Over 400 million profiles in online family trees (2015: over 1.9 billion; 2014: over 650 million)

23)  www.OneGreatFamily.com (shared tree, $$)

*  Over 190 million entries

24)  www.FamilyTreeDNA.com (DNA, $$):

*  ??? DNA test results (2015: 707,017; 2014: 663,523; 2013: 401,057)

25)  www.23andme.com (DNA, $$):

*   over 1 million genotyped customers (2015: over 750,000; 2014: about 500,000)

I obtained those numbers from publicly available information on the websites.  Several sites have not updated their numbers, or have hidden the numbers.

There are many free and subscription websites that do not publish easily findable numbers.

What other websites and what other numbers should I be benchmarking? Are some of the numbers wrong? Please tell me in Comments and I will edit the list above!

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