Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Working on husband's line

I've been trying to take advantage of the three free days of Ancestry.ca that I got a link about in one of my mailing lists. Unfortunately, I soon ran out of little threads of my Hispanic family that had come into the USA long enough to show up on publicly available records.

Ah well, I figured I'd take a look at my husband's line. I've done very little there, to be honest.

Well, of course it figures that there are two submitters on One World Tree who have at some point researched his family, neither of which provided an email address to contact them! Each of the two was a little different from the other, but I do believe that one used the other as a source. To make sure that I got it all, I had to import them both and merge them in my program. I still have some cleaning up to do, removing some double events that the filters may have missed for example. But at this point, it looks like I picked up a very good number of leads. (Not very well documented, unfortunately.)

From my husband as generation 1, I added:
(Generations 1-3 were not new.)
Generation 4 has 3 individuals. (37.50%)
Generation 5 has 2 individuals. (12.50%)
Generation 6 has 3 individuals. (9.38%)
Generation 7 has 1 individual. (1.56%)

And of course dozens of siblings and cousins all around.

Current statistics (again, this may go down a little bit with some cleanup work I'm going to do.):

Individuals
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Number of individuals: 527
Males: 257
Females: 270
Individuals with incomplete names: 30
Individuals missing birth dates: 444
Disconnected individuals: 5

Family Information
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Number of families: 212
Unique surnames: 129

Not bad for a free three-day pass! Thank you, Ancestry.ca!

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