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 for nearly
ten years. When I work on a family, I try to move these Notes sources into real
sources, but it takes time.
My current database, RootsMagic
says I have 8,839 citations coming from 1,512 different sources. I have 7091
people in my database and 16,603 events. My source to person ratio is
8,839/7091 = 1.25. Obviously, I have not sourced all of my events yet. I’ve
only done about half of them.
We did this same exercise three
years ago and my ratio then was 1.09. So I have been improving!
2) I
ran the statistics for the number of sources I have. It came to 356 pages! My
most used sources in order are:
Database
|
2017
|
2014*
|
Find A Grave
|
1048
|
446
|
Texas Deaths 1890-1076
|
173
|
123
|
Cemetery & Bible
Records Vol 1 (Mississippi)
|
152
|
|
Skaraborg Parish Records
|
126
|
|
California Voter Registration1900-1968
|
130
|
74
|
Barron & Allied
Families
|
112
|
|
Nilsen Family: From
Jonkoping to America
|
102
|
|
Courier-Journal
(Louisville, KY)
|
85
|
|
World War I Draft Registrations
|
84
|
|
Parish Records
|
82
|
|
*I didn’t record all of these databases in 2014
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Again, if I didn’t separate all of
my census entries by county, I would have a very high statistic for the U.S.
census.
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