Relatives at RootsTech - How many do you have?
I have been completely shocked as my relative count keeps increasing. I am currently at over 17,000. Is this normal? I would love to know what your counts are.
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36,015 as of this morning. Keep in mind that this number only represents the tiny fraction of our relatives that are interested enough in genealogy to register for RootsTech. This just points out that if you are in the United States and have your family lines hooking into the massive main interlinked portion of FamilyTree, you will find that you have 12th (or whatever number of generations they use) cousins everywhere. There is an extremely high chance that you are related to the person standing next to you in the grocery store check out line no matter what that person's name is or what they look like.
Correction: now it's 36,021.
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19,252 here, and I'm only attending online, being in the UK (but my maternal grandmother was born in Rhode Island, and one of my father's great-great-uncles was an LDS emigrant from England).
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I had over 50,000 last year, by the end. This year I have almost 20,000, so far.
All but one is maternal. My maternal side has been in the US since before the American Revolution.0 -
Whereas I currently have … two.
It might double by the end, but I doubt it.
:-)
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I only have 1 on my Hungarian side.
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I don't have a non-Hungarian side…. On platforms that include "sideways" connections (such as WikiTree and Geni), I connect to the Anglo-American "center of the universe" via my dad's cousin's spouse (in New Zealand) and via The Famous Relative's third (and shortest) marriage, but neither of those is included in FamilySearch's connections calculators. (TFR was my father-in-law's cousin, so FS doesn't consider him my relative at all.)
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As of now there are more than 1/4 million signed up for relatives at roots tech. Last year there were over 4 million that attended roots tech so if every one that attended had signed up there would have been over 4 million.
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Speaking of… I think we need to figure out how to tag Famous Hungarians, so they come up in the "Famous Relatives" display. ;)
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@Julie62354, I did at one point actually temporarily change my profile into my spouse's, just to verify that yes, Albert is on FS's list. (He did spend the last third of his life in the U.S., which I guess puts him within the extremely limited range of their radar.) As far as I know, there is currently no mechanism for user suggestions of famous people to add to the list, but a Help Center article from last fall implies that they may be working on one.
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