SNGF: Genealogy Database Statistics

 

Tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver is:

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.

2)  Tell us which GMP you use, and how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database(s) today.

 

Family Tree Maker

I use Family Tree Maker 2012 (FTM) for my genealogy research. I went to Plan > Current Tree > More to find my file statistics.

 

 

This shows me that in my database I have:

• 5,096 people
• 1,374 marriages
• 14 generations
• 1,015 surnames
• 1,911 places
• 63 sources
• 425 media

• average lifespan 57.3 years
• earliest birth date before 1555
• most recent birth date 11 March 2011

My daughter is due to have her first baby two weeks today, so that last statistic will soon change.

 

The Next Generation

I use The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) to publish my family history online. TNG also produces database statistics. These are slightly different from FTM because I haven't synced the two programs for a couple of days.

 

 

The TNG statistics provide me with the additional information that in my database I have:

• 2,576 males (50.57%)
• 2,499 females (49.06%)
• 19 unknown gender (0.37%)
• total living 582
• total families 1,536
• average lifespan 60 years 88 days
• longest lived person 106 years

The large discrepancy in the average lifespan between FTM and TNG is surprising and I must investigate that further.

SNGF - Ahnentafel Roulette

Tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver is:

1. How old would your great-grandfather be now, if he had lived? Divide this number by four and round off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."
2. Use your pedigree charts to find the person with that number in your ahnentafel. Who is that person?
3. Tell us three facts about the person with that "roulette number."

My great-grandfather, Rev Alban Edgar Brunskill Davis, was born in 1852. Had he lived, he would be 159 years old. Dividing this number by four gives me a "roulette number" of 40.

Number 40 in my ahnentafel is my 3x great grandfather, William Eaton, 1777-1857.

My three facts about William are:

1. He was a carpenter in the small village of Dean in Bedfordshire and also had a side line selling beer. He was the fifth in an unbroken line of seven generations of Eatons who were carpenters in Dean, spanning the period 1679 to 1898.
2. He married three times.
• His first wife was Elizabeth Hardwick, 1779-1814. Elizabeth was from Great Staughton in Huntingdonshire, where they married in 1801. William was two years older than Elizabeth.
• His second wife was Martha Windsor, 1796-1820. They married in Dean in 1815. William was 19 years older than Martha.
• His third wife was my 3x great grandmother, Elizabeth Panther, 1802-1868. William was 25 years older than Elizabeth.
3. As a result of these three marriages, William had 17 children over a period of 39 years, from 1803 to 1842. His last child was born when he was 65:
• With Elizabeth Hardwick he had eight children:
• Sarah Eaton, 1803-1803
• William Eaton, 1804-1824
• Thomas Eaton, 1805
• Samuel Eaton, 1806
• Mary Eaton, 1808
• Hannah Eaton, 1809
• John Eaton, 1811
• Joseph Eaton, 1813-1814
• With Martha Windsor he had only one child:
• Elizabeth Eaton, 1816
• With Elizabeth Panther he had eight children:
• Robert Eaton, 1822-1898
• Sarah Eaton, 1823-1832
• Ann Burgess Eaton, 1825
• Emma Eaton, 1828
• William Eaton, 1829
• Mary Eaton, 1832
• Sally Burgess Eaton, 1839
• Samuel Panther Eaton, 1842

SNGF: 10 Signs you have summer holiday GOCD

For tonight's SNGF challenge, Randy Seaver has invited us to add to Michael John Neill's list of 10 Signs You Have Genealogy OCD.

As we are in the middle of the summer holidays, I decided to base my list on that theme:

 

 

1. You book your holiday accommodation in a former ancestral hometown - if possible, in a former ancestral home.
   
   
2. You pack your laptop, notebook and pencils but forget your swimsuit and sunblock.
   
   
3. You take three days to get there because of all the genealogy related stops along the way.
   
   
4. You spend your days in the archives / cemetery whilst your family go to the beach.
   
   
5. You spend one evening at the local genealogy society meeting.
   
   
6. You spend your other evenings researching online whilst your family watch TV.
   
   
7. You send reproductions of old postcards to your friends and family back home.
   
   
8. You buy local maps and histories as souvenirs.
   
   
9. You are Facebook friends with all the local genealogists by the time you leave.
   
   
10. All your holiday snaps are of gravestones.

SNGF: Where I'm From

This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver is to write a poem about "Where I'm From" using the template found at the website http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm.

Here is my entry:

Where I'm From

I am from toast and dripping, Hovis and honey, full cream milk and eggy soldiers.

I am from a pebble-dashed semi - coal bunker, Mabel Lucy Attwell print, ginger kitten climbing the curtains - next door to the district nurse.

I am from the rose trellis and vegetable plot, compost heap and cherry tree. Opposite the oak wood dell, pirate haven and Red Indian camp, where my brother fell from a tree.

I am from grammar school education and eccentricity, Scottish pride and London poverty. I am from upstairs and downstairs - Alban and Georgina and Viv and Alice.

I am from wanderlust and laughter, a passion for history and the gift of the gab. From "I can see a way round this" to "you get yours, mate".

I am from mixed-marriage, second-class, never quite good enough Catholics. I am from Bible believing Baptists, upwardly mobile Methodists, bells and smells Anglicans, down the pub atheists.

I am from the Surrey hills, channelling Dorset, Yorkshire, London. I am from the Braes of Atholl and from the Blarney Stone. I am from puddings - Christmas and Yorkshire - spaghetti bolognese and the Chinese chippy.

I am from the snake in Dad's tent and the flood over the library. I am from Passchendaele and Poona. From the Rector of Brympton and McCarthy of the Yard.

I am from a biscuit tin of photos, tea-time stories, Grandma's memories. I am from a crocheted cot blanket, an ivory hairbrush and a tortoiseshell mirror.

I am from strong roots in good soil.