In the Eye of the Beholder -- Ancestry.com

Title                                            # of records

*****The Good*****
Census & Voter Lists                 614,940,056
Birth, Marriage & Death             318,401,613
Military                                        72,823,282
Immigration & Emigration           119,396,999
Directories & Member Lists    1,455,629,364
Court, Land, Will & Financial         6,403,074
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias &        4,580,650
    Reference
Newspapers & Periodicals          21,373,066
Stories, Memories & Histories       7,830,987
    (Published)
Pictures                                         2,723,003
Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers             241,577

*****The Ugly*****
Public Member Trees                 103,154,862
OneWorldTree                            40,491,162
Personal Member Trees               25,638,897

IMHO, that's not a bad amount of records, not bad at all to have at my 
fingertips at 3AM AND that's for only the United States! Let's say for the 
Census & Voter Lists there are an average of 40 names per page, that's a 
whooping 24,597,602,240 (B as in Billion) individual name records! There are 
25, 068 individual databases available. Nope, not bad at all -- In the Eye 
of the Beholder.

Tom
Eastern Shore & More
http://easternshoremore.com 

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