Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Records With Your First Name and Surname

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Hey boys and girls, it's time for more genealogy fun.

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1)  You were born and given a forename (first name and middle name(?)) and a surname on your birth certificate. What were they?

2)  How many persons are on the FamilySearch Family Tree (with an exact search for a birth name) with your first and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

3)  How many matches do you have when you search the FamilySearch Historical Records  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name, and separately, with your surname?  Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

4)  How many person are in the Public Ancestry Member Tree collection  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

5)  How many person are in the Ancestry Historical Records Collections  (with an exact search for a name) with your first name and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surname?

6)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post.

Here's mine:

1)  My birth certificate says Randall Jeffrey Seaver.

2)  The FamilySearch Family Tree, with an exact search on birth name (you may have to add a birth year range, I used 1526 to 2025):

• Randall - 14,086
• Seaver -  58,138
• Randall Seaver - 1 (not me, I'm still living)
• Randall Jeffrey Seaver - 0 (I'm still living)

3)  The FamilySearch Historical Records, with an exact search for the name (you may have to add a birth year range, I used 1526 to 2025):

• Randall - 749,538
• Seaver -  105,121
• Randall Seaver - 14
• Randall Jeffrey Seaver - 2 (both me)

4)  The Public Ancestry Member Tree collection, with an exact search on the name:

• Randall - 138,396 sets of trees
• Seaver -  9,842 sets of trees
• Randall Seaver - 6 sets of trees (67 total entries) (not me, I'm still living)
• Randall Jeffrey Seaver - 1 set of trees (3 total entries - they gave me a death date of 2006!)

5)  The Ancestry Historical Records collection, with an exact search on the name:

• Randall - 4,640,772 entries
• Seaver -  373,247 entries
• Randall Seaver - 143
• Randall Jeffrey Seaver - 20 (7 are me, others don't have exact name)

Caveats:  The FamilySearch Family Tree may have duplicate entries.  The FamilySearch Historical Records have multiple events when you search for a name.  The Ancestry Member Trees are grouped into sets that Ancestry thinks have the same information). The Ancestry Historical Records have multiple events when you search for a name.

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