My Trails into the Past

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another challenge for us: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Have you done a good job of citing your sources in your genealogy management program or online family tree?  How are you doing?  How many source citations do you have, and how many people are in your tree?  What is the sources to persons ratio? 2)  Which master source (e.g., 1900 U.S. census, Find A Grave, specific book, etc.) do you have the most citations for?  How many?  How did you figure this out? 3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or on Facebook or Google+ in a post.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your post on this blog post . 1)    I try to create source citations for all of my events, but I still have many events where the source citation is part of notes instead. This is left over from my PAF program which I used f...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another assignment this week for us. I have not had a chance to participate because I was away from my computer on vacation. Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database. 2) Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task. 3) Tell us what the top 10 (or 20) surnames are in your database and, if possible, how many entries. How many different surnames are in your family tree? 4) Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on Facebook, or in Google Plus Stream post. I use RootsMagic and Randy was so kind to explain in his blog post how to do this in RootsMagic. It is a report called "Surname Statistics." I was very surprise...