It’s time once again for Randy Seaver’s weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. This week’s challenge is to share our genealogy database statistics.
I am going to share two of my trees, as a comparison, mostly for myself. I am a FTM latecomer to RootsMagic and imported my husband’s tree and my own. I then imported a second version of my own tree, stripped of all the documents and images, as I got the crazy idea to try to rename all of the items and actually use source citation templates to document them all. (In the past, with Family Tree Maker, I buried my sources in my notes.)
First is my husband’s tree:
Dave’s Tree
There are:
- People: 7800
- Families: 3772
- Events: 19,740
- Alternate Names: 1,386
- Places: 3,383
- Sources: 139
- Citations: 7,147
- Repositories: 2
- To-do Tasks: 0
- Research Logs: 0
- Multimedia Items: 6,317
- Multimedia Links: 12,949
- Addresses: 0
- Correspondence: 0
Now to compare with my stripped down tree:
Linda’s Tree
My tree has:
- People: 7,517
- Families: 3,175
- Events: 11,022
- Alternate Names: 136
- Places: 1,577
- Sources: 79
- Citations: 539
- Repositories: 2
- To-Do Tasks: 0
- Research Logs: 0
- Multimedia Items: 125
- Multimedia Tasks: 167
- Addresses: 0
- Correspondence: 0
I have a ways to go with the multimedia items and citations in my tree because there are over 5000 attached in Family Tree Maker.