Randy has a fun and very easy challenge tonight at Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, that being:
Hey genea-philes - it's Saturday Night! Time for more Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, 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 status or Google+ stream comment.
I am currently using RootsMagic 4. Here is a screen shot of my numbers, found via File, Properties.
Considering that I have done almost NOTHING to my data base in months, in fact in well over a year, I am still pretty pleased with the number of multimedia items, as one of my long term goals is to have SOME kind of photo for everyone on the data base.
I am also rather pleased with my individual to events ratio and my events to citations ratio.
Fun one Randy, thanks!
4 comments:
Carol, I'm glad you did yours as well. You use your To-Do list, good habit, and I see you put in addresses, which I've been neglecting. Maybe you could give me instruction on how to copy the report to the blog, as you saw, I had a heck of a time (perhaps email me). Thanks.
Hi Carol, wow, I can't believe you have over 8000 multimedia items! That's awesome! I haven't started adding multimedia to my gen database probably because I knew how much it slowed down the FTM I was using before. Does it slow down your RM at all or make it harder to open RM on the go?
Barb, used screen shot and photo editing program. Ginger, I can't say that I notice any slow down, except possibly for individuals that have a large number of photos. I do not use RM on the go, so cannot address that. Any slow down is well worth dealing with, telling a person's story/history via photos, sound bytes, video clips, etc., is my goal, and is part and parcel of my approach to family history.
Hi Carol, I too use RM 4 and love it. I have two databases because my mom has issues with my natural father. Here is the info from his only:
People 2941
Families 1010
Events 5456
Alt Names 57
Places 825
Sources 257
Citations 2304
To Do 2
Multi Media 6
Multi Links 1
Addresses 18
Most of my photos are online at Wordpress. I felt if the computer died or a tornado, etc. at least the photos would still be there.
Wanted to say "Thanks" for the prayers for my neighbor and know you will find some use for the clip art. Have a great week!
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