Thanks, Rick and Tom.
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Thank you for pointing that out, Rick. In my exuberance I forgot to change
the wording to more accurately reflect the numbers. That's still not a bad
amount of records.
Thank you,
Tom
Eastern Shore & More
http://easternshoremore.com
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From: "Fredric Z. Saunders" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Family researches online
> >Census & Voter Lists 614,940,056
> <snip>
>>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!
>
> Wrong. This is not meant to be either an endorsement for on knock on
> Ancestry, but on your interpretation of those figures. There are NOT
> 614,940,056 census and voter lists for the United States. Think about it.
> If you divide 614,940,056 by the time of settlement of the U.S. (I'll
> round
> to 400 years), that would be 1,537,350 (1.5 million "lists") per year for
> the past 400 years. 614,940,056 has to be the number of names that appear
> in U.S. (mostly) census lists and a (few) voter lists.
>
> The same applies to other records you listed. There are not 1,455,629,364
> Directories and Member lists, or 6,403,074 Court, Land and will records,
> or
> 21,373,066 Newspapers. Those are the number of NAMES they have indexed in
> each of those categories.
>
> Rick Saunders
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