Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Statistics

Do you track the 'growth' of your genealogy database or your Ancestry tree?

I started tracking my statistics over a year ago. In January, I created a new table in my bullet journal to track the growth of my tree in 2019. At the first of each month, I record the data in my journal.

For my tree, I pull the statistics from two different sources. In RootsMagic, I look at the DATABASE PROPERTIES.



In Ancestry, I click on the down carrot by my tree name to open the Tree Menu.


I then select the TREE OVERVIEW to access the statistical summary.


When I look at these stats, I want to see growth -- not only in the number of people but also in the sourcing for the people in my tree.

The following data was collected on July 1st.

  • RootsMagic People: 13486
  • Rootsmagic Families: 4511
  • RootsMagic Events: 37971
  • RootsMagic Place: 3993
  • RootsMagic: Sources: 3861
  • RootsMagic: Citations: 52871
  • Ancestry People: 13027
  • Ancestry Photos: 6640
  • Ancestry Stories: 1538
  • Ancestry Records: 7535
Wanting to visualize the growth I've made over the last 6 months, I entered my data into a spreadsheet and created a graph for my RootsMagic people and citations data.


Even though I've gotten bogged down with acquiring and transcribing deeds, my statistics show that I am learning more about the people in my tree and that I am adding documentation to those people. Even though it may feel like I'm stagnating, my statistics show a different story.

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