It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) Have you done a good job of citing your sources in your genealogy management program or online family tree? How are you doing? How many source citations do you have, and how many people are in your tree? What is the sources to persons ratio?
2) Which master source (e.g., 1900 U.S. census, Find A Grave, specific book, etc.) do you have the most citations for? How many? How did you figure this out?
3) Tell us in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or on Facebook or Google+ in a post. Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your post on this blog post.
Here's mine:
1) I'm trying! I'm not nearly done. I'm almost obsessive now...I've been adding source citations almost every day based on new research, on MyHeritage Record Matches, on Ancestry Hints, etc., all for persons and events that are in my database without a source citation (due to slacking off for many years). I'm also trying to "improve" existing source citations when I find them by adding better citation details.
At present, my RootsMagic 7 database statistics file (File > Properties) says that I have 89,399 source citations in 1,579 master sources, and there are 48,881 persons in this tree. My source/person ratio is 1.83, but not every name or event has a citation.
2) I think that Find A Grave is the master source in my database that has the most individuals and source citations. I found this out by:
* In RootsMagic 7, I created a Source List report (selecting Reports > All reports > Source list > select "Print all sources in database sorted by source name") and browsed the list. The list for all 1,579 master sources was 3,111 pages long.
The number of citations for some of the master sources were:
** Find A Grave: 21,702 (26.0% of the total)
** Social Security Death Index: 3,512
** Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1920: 3,205
** 1920 U.S. Census: 2,806
** Social Security Applications and Claims Index: 1,616
** World War I Draft Registrations: 1,592
** California Death Index: 1,449
** Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2003: 1,441
** 1930 U.S. Census: 1,320
** 1940 U.S. Census: 1,001
** Medfield, Mass. Vital Records book: 865
** Roxbury, Mass. Vital Records Book: 779
** Woburn, Mass. Vital Records book: 703
** Concord, Mass. Vital Records Book: 699** 1900 U.S. Census: 620
** World War II Draft Registrations: 590
** 1910 U.S. Census: 568
** California Birth Index, 1905-1995: 550
3) I expected to find a better statistics report that listed the master sources with the number of individuals and citations, and in numerical order. Oh well.
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