It is Saturday Night time –
1) Go into your Family tree Administration Program (GMP; both software program in your laptop, or a web-based household tree) and work out how one can Rely what number of surnames you’ve got in your loved ones tree database.
2) Inform us which GMP you are utilizing and the way you probably did this activity.
3) Inform us what number of surnames are in your database and, if doable, which Surname has probably the most entries. If this excites you, inform us which surnames are within the high 5! Or 10!! Or 20!!!
4) Write about it in your individual weblog submit, in a remark to this weblog submit, in a standing or touch upon Fb, or in Google Plus Stream submit.
NOTE: If you cannot work out how to do that in your GMP (Family tree Administration Program), use the Assist button in your program and seek for “rely surnames” then observe instructions.
This is mine:
I’ll use RootsMagic 8 as a result of that is the place I am doing my present additions, deletions and modifying and is my latest assortment. In RootsMagic 8, go to “Publish,” then ” Stories and Charts,” and scroll right down to “Surname Statistics.”
With “Surnames (alphabetical)” chosen, I had 244 pages of surnames – about 9,960 of them.
I then selected “Frequency of Surname” and this system confirmed me the primary web page:
The highest 25 are, with delivery date ranges:
* SEAVER – 7,057 individuals, from 1600 to 2022
* [unknown] – 1,322 individuals, from 747 to 2017
* SEVIER – 987 individuals, from 1702 to 2020
* SMITH – 909 individuals, from 1543-2018
* BUCK – 831 individuals, from 1577 to 2016
* VAUX – 622 individuals, from 1620 to 2020
* BRESEE – 260persons, from 1650 to 1913
* RICHMOND – 238 individuals, from 1555-2013
NOTE: We have finished this earlier than, however I am out of city and wanted a fast submit. See https://www.geneamusings.com/2016/09/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-many.html (on 3 September 2016)) for the final time we did this for SNGF.
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