SNGF -- Your Genealogy Database Statistics

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:

1)  If you have your family tree research in a Genealogy Management Program (GMP), whether a computer software program or an online family tree, figure out how to find how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database (hint:  the Help button is your friend!)

2)  Tell us which GMP you use, and how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database(s) today in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook comment.

NOTE:  WE last did this in November 2021.

Here's mine:
Like Randy, I use RootsMagic 10. I saw that I had an update to make, so I took care of it before checking the statistics.

Tools > Enhanced Properties List

I hope this can be read. I could not figure out how to make it any larger in RootsMagic before taking a screenshot.

In 2021, we were using version 6, so the database properties list looked different. A comparison of some of the data points:

Topic	2019	2025	Difference
People	7293	7455	162
Families	2589	2651	62
Events	17786	18389	603
Places	1825	3825	2000
Sources	1728	1830	102
Citations	10010	10506	496

Adding 62 families and 162 people makes sense. I’m happy to see that I have added 102 sources and nearly 500 citations. That’s an improvement. Many of my facts are still sourced in the notes field.

I’m puzzled about adding 2000 more places to the database. That cannot be right. Plus, there are 52 places not being used. There are also 104 sources without citations. And 7 citations not being used. I need to investigate that.

The sources without citations are for specific death, baptism, or marriage records for a particular person. I did this in the very beginning when using PAF, and I have not corrected them. These are named, for example, “Death Certificate for Unnamed Baby Nilsen” or “Birth Record of Harry Polly Lancaster.”

So, what I’ve done is run the reports, printed them out, so I can go in and try to fix the unused places and citations. It’s probably good to do this every 3-4 years.

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