How Many People are in my Family Tree
Sort of like ancestry, I'd love to know how many people are linked to my family tree. Where can I find this?
Answers
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Depends how you define it:
- Director ancestors only
- Direct ancestors plus siblings
- Direct ancestors plus siblings with their spouses
- As 3. plus descendants.
- As 4 plus spouses of descandants
- As 5, plus parents of spouses
- As 6 plus ancestors of spouses
- Etc
1,2 and 3 are not too difficult to count. The best way is probably to use a family tree software package that links with FamilySearch. See Solutions Gallery – Family Tree Management
Going beyond that gets more challenging!
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Just assume it is too big to be meaningful or useful information. Since FamilyTree is a single, unified, community, world-wide tree, you potentially connect into the most-connected section of the database which contains, according to a RootsTech speaker, about 825,000,000 people.
Now if you don't mean connected to but rather related to, that is when you click "View My Relationship" in the tree you get a result that would be a smaller number because the routine only goes back 15 generations then forward again. But to give you some idea, I do connect into that 825,000,000 person connected section of the tree and from that pool, I was told I had about 45,000 (I don't remember the exact number) living people who registered for RootsTech with whom I could show a relationship within 15 generations. This would clearly be a minority of my living relatives. Add all the deceased direct line relatives and all the cousins of various sorts, and the number balloons quickly.
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In addition to the comments above, you can see the people you have added to the FamilySearch Family Tree in the My Contributions section of the FSFT.
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