Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Surnames?
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database.
2) Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task.
3) Tell us how many surnames are in your database and, if possible, which Surname has the most entries. If this excites you, tell us which surnames are in the top 5! Or 10!
4) Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on Facebook, or in Google Plus Stream post.
I used Family Tree Maker 2012 for this exercise, I went to publish, Charts & Reports, Person Reports, and finally to Surname Report.
My surname count for
my family history file is 857 surnames.
The top ten, along with their oldest and newest dates are:
Name Count Male Female Earliest Most Recent
Ferguson 132 73 59 1641 1946
Sempsrott 118 71 47 1694 1966
Meurer 110 51 59 1786 1946
Burbach 95 41 54 1713 1940
Hansen 84 49 35 1829 2008
Coan 70 45 25 1793 1971
Hassler 69 46 23 1815 1939
Wolf 56 32 24 1843 1931
Brahm 44 21 23 1828 1949
Fleming 44 24 20 1846 1932
Peterson 39 28 11 1851 1989
Fuegerson 38 18 19 1748 1861
Clearly the surnames of Ferguson and Fuegerson can be
combined so the combination would be
Ferguson/ 170 91 68 1641 1946
Fuegerson
This would leave room for the twelfth entry to be:
Connery 37 16 20 1826 1943
The total number in my file with the surmane Unknown is:
Unknown 31 6 25 1690 1895
Looking at the most recent dates shows that I definitely
need more cousin contacts.
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