Because my family tree software includes more lines than just my family and a lot of descendants of not only my tree but also for some of those other lines, I don’t put much stock in statistics. However, the recent post, My Family Tree in Numbers, challenged me to re-look at those stats.
- 18466 People
- 5943 Families
- 56455 Events
- 6514 Places
- 4837 Sources
- 73337 Citations
Since I use Ancestry as my primary location to share my tree, I also have stats for that tree.
Even though I don’t do my research in My Heritage, I did upload a gedcom to create a tree on that site. Thus, I can take advantage of their new ‘Family Statistics’ tools. This tool is found under the HOME menu on My Heritage.
It takes a few minutes for My Heritage to generate the statistics for the tree, but once generated the tree is analyzed in a variety of ways.
The ‘Places’ page verifies what I knew about my tree: the vast majority of my ancestors were born, died and resided in the United States.
Since my tree on My Heritage doesn’t contain many living people, this aspect of the statistics, including the Age Distribution, doesn’t provide much information. However, the ‘Life Expectancy’ section is insteresting.
The ‘Births’ section provides information on the month of birth as well as an analysis of when ancestors were born.
Next is an analysis of the marriage data.
One thing I noticed is that this points out areas where my tree may be incorrect. For example, the likelihood that someone in my tree married at age 10 seems doubtful.
Children data
This data provides a quick analysis of a tree.