FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 12 February 2025

 I've always been 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?  The last update on Genea-Musings was FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 15 January 2025, four weeks ago. 

1)  Here is the Full-Text Search home page on 12 February 2025 (the last review was on 15 January 2025, four weeks ago):

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. 1776-2025).  

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 "Last Updated" I can see:

It says there are 3,453 collections today (down 31 (-0.89%) from four weeks ago). Clicking on "Collection Title" will provide an alphabetical collection list, and clicking on "Records" will provide the list by most records.   

I wanted to know which collection had the most images so I clicked the "Records" title.  This week it is "United States, New York, Migrations, from 1901 to 2013" with 55,642,357 images.  This is up 4 images from four weeks ago.

Note that the last collection updated was on 14 January 2025.  They have not added a collection for four weeks, and have removed 33 collections since late December; I assume that the removed collections have been added or merged to Library digital collections or to indexed digital collections.

2)  I also want to know how many records (images?) there are on Full-Text Search.  I added the year range "1500-1800" and saw:

I had to do this four times to get the full count of images using ranges from 1500 to 1800, 1801-1900, 1901-1960, and 1961-2024, and then adding them up.

That gave me a total of all Records (Images?) of 1,399,518,662  (up 1,088,968 - up 0.07% from four weeks ago).

3)  What about "Results" by Country?  When I added "United States" to the Place field, I had to break the year range into four groups to get answers and add them up.

It found 1,163,732,518 results (down 48,694,268 from last week - down 4.02% from 4 weeks ago) for "United States."  Since I used a "Place" search term, that probably 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 = 20,437,424

*  Ireland = 15,027,649

*  Wales =  567,217

*  Scotland = 985,237

*  Canada = 46,230,908

*  Mexico = 10,446,691

*  Australia = 16,829,967

*  New Zealand = 6,750,140

*  France = 7,713,180

*  Germany = 12,886,802

*  Netherlands = 469,811

*  Belgium = 954,512

*  Poland = 3,918,834

*  Finland - 953,324

*  Sweden = 3,593,958

*  Norway = 2,891,639

*  Denmark = 1,855,188

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).

4)  When I looked for these numbers last week on 15 January 2025, I found:

*  Number of collections:  3,484

*  Number of "Results" (with no search terms):   1,398,509,694

And now the numbers are:

*  Number of collections:  3,453

*  Number of "Results" (with no search terms):  1,399,518,662

The change over the last four weeks for Full-Text Search is:

*  Number of collections:  down 31 (down 0.89%)

*  Number of "Results" with no search terms: up 1,088,968 (up 0.07%)

It appears that they removed (or merged) some record collections, but added some records to existing collections.  Or they removed more than 31 collections and added some new collections - it's hard to tell.

5)  The FamilySearch Images collection has 5.602.8 billion images as I write this (an increase of 23.3 million, up 0.042% from four weeks ago).  

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 24.98% of the "Images" collection processed as of today.

This is a Benchmark for 12 February 2025.  Let's see how quickly the numbers grow over the next few months.  

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