Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Genealogy Database Statistics

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
 

1)  If you have your family tree research in a Genealogy Management Program (GMP), whether a computer software program or an online family tree, figure out how to find how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database (hint:  the Help button is your friend!)

2)  Tell us which GMP you use, and how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database(s) today in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook comment.

NOTE:  WE last did this in November 2021.

Here's mine:

I use RootsMagic 10.0.9 at present for my Genealogy Management Program of choice. Here is the Tools > Enhanced Properties List:

The information in this window says my current database has:

• People: 74,661
• Names:  90,078
• Alternate Names:  15,412
• Families:  30,274
• Events: 233,425
• Places: 28,225
• Sources: 2,660
• Citations: 147,848
• Repositories: 81
• Multimedia items: 1,267
• Multimedia links: 3,213
• Addresses: 10
• Tasks: 336
• Groups:  63

There are 121 sources with no citations (mainly Find A Grave sources that are unique to a person, so not a problem), and there are 21 missing media items (most of them refer to an image downloaded from my Ancestry Member Tree and they need to be deleted). 

I have a number of unused citations, places, media, and repositories.  I need to clean those up. 

I know that I have a lot of duplicate Places.  I need to clean those up too.

I took the opportunity to run the Database Tools (File > Test Integrity, Rebuild Indexes, Clean Phantom Records, and Compact).

Lastly, I saved a Backup File, and copied the database file (.rmgc) to Googly Drive, Dropbox, and my Flash Drive.  It gets updated every night on my iDrive account.

If I do this in other programs, the process is:

*  Family Tree Maker 2024 (and earlier):  in "Plan" Workspace, click "More" button
*  Legacy Family Tree 10: Help > General Information
*  Ancestry Member Tree:  Select your tree, then click on "Tree Pages," and select "Tree Overview."
*  MyHeritage Tree:  Click on "Go to Family Stats" on your home page.

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