FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 3 December 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 2,947 collections today (up 820 (38.5%) from last week), and the list above by is sorted by the "Last Updated" date.  Clicking on "Collection Title" will provide an alphabetical collection list, and clicking on "Records" will provide the list by most records. 

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 715,829,853 (up 148,383,112 (8.5%) from last week), which probably means the number of images that have the search terms.  Since I had no search terms, it probably gave me the count of every indexed image in the collections.

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

It found 662,671,334 results (up 91,995,439 (16.1%) from last week).  Since I used a "Place" search term, that may mean the number of matches to the "Place" term on the available indexed images.  

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

*  England = 15,056,488

*  Ireland = 9,773,581

*  Wales =  480,542

*  Scotland = 848,016

*  Canada = 31,607,718

*  Mexico = 5,282,410

*  Australia = 7,323,225

*  New Zealand = 5,771,334

*  France = 5,608,789

*  Germany = 11,263,327

Note that some of the "Results" numbers may not be for records in the stated Place (e.g., "France" might be a town in the USA).

When I looked for these numbers last week on 25 November 2024, I found:

*  Number of collections:  2,197

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms:   567.47 million 

So the increase over the last week for Full-Text Search is:

*  Number of collections:  820 

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms:  148.38 million 

The FamilySearch Images collection has 5,547.4 million images as I write this (an increase of 21.8 million, up 3.9% from last week). 

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.  So Full-Text Search has about 12.9% of the "Images" collection processed as of today.

This is a Benchmark for 3 December 2024.  Let's see how quickly the numbers grow over the next few months.  

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