FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 25 November 2024

 I'm still a numbers guy, so when a database like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search comes along, I wonder if it is growing slowly or quickly.

The good news is -- It's still growing quickly, like every week it adds new record collections and millions of records.  But how quickly?

Here is the Full-Text Search home page:

The user can use the search fields to search for keywords, a name, a location (pick from a list), and a year range (e.g. 1776-2024).  

Or, the user can search for a specific collection using the "Find a Collection" search field.

There is a link to "Browse All Collections" which provides a list of the available collections.  When I click that, and select "Records" I can see:

It says there are 2,127 collections today, and the list by "Records" is sorted by the largest to the smallest.  Clicking on "Collectino Title" will provide an alphabetical collection list, and clicking on "Last Updated" will provide the most recent collections. 

I want to know how many records (images?) there are on Full-Text Search.  I added the year range "1525-2024" and saw:

That gives me All "Results" of 567,446,741, which probably means the number of images that have the search terms.  Since I had no search terms, it may have given me the count of every image in the collections.

What about "Results" by Country?  When I added "United States" to the Place field, I saw:

It found 570,675,895 results.  Since I used a "Place" search term, that may mean the number of matches to the "Place" term on the available images.  Note that this United States number is greater than the number for All "Results" (images?) on the search with only the "Year Range" search term. 

Doing a similar test for different countries, I made this  list today:

*  England = 15,054,891

*  Ireland = 8,089,553

*  Wales =  480,296

*  Scotland = 847,507

*  Canada = 29,689,703

*  Mexico = 3,925,536

*  Australia = 7,276,574

*  New Zealand = 5,760,732

*  France = 5,034,796

Some of the "Results" numbers may not be for records in the stated Place.

When I looked for these numbers last week on 18 November 2024, I found:

*  Number of collections:  1,397

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms:  394.4 million 

So the increase over the last week is:

*  Number of collections:  730 

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms:  173 million 

Lastly, we know that Full-Text Search is using the "Images" collection on FamilySearch to add them to Full-Text Search, to keyword index them, and to transcribe them.  The FamilySearch Images collection has 5,525.6 million images as I write this. So Full-Text Search has about 10% of the "Images" collection processed as of today.

This is a Benchmark for 25 November 2024.  Let's see how quickly the numbers grow over the next few months.

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