Hi,Dave, I will visit the site. It looks likea good one for the "CHASE most interesting and helpful sites" page that your doughty helpers are trying to compile. I believe it is useful to know that there are probably 80,000 persons with the name CHASE. All we need now is to have some mathemetician to work out:- A) How many of them are descendants of William,Aquila and Thomas B) How many persons in the US have the blood of these 3 in their veins. In the CHASE database between 19 and 20% are actually named CHASE.(1,691) If you take out spouses and their parents I would guess that the figure nears 25%. So we would have 75% with CHASE blood but with other names. The "Unknown" factor in this problem is that it is almost impossible, in my view, to estimate how many persons tracing their history have found the CHASE line fascinating to the cost of other lines in their families. It is worth considering that:- a) William (of the Winthrop Fleet) has 6,947 descendants in the database He only had 2 Children with recorded offspring b) Aquila has 1,067 descendants in the Database He had 11 Children that are recorded c) Thomas has 143 descendants in the Database He had 5 sons that are recorded. With all respect to those researching Aquila & Thomas,I may be wrong, but my personal opinion is that the fact that William is the better known in American history is a prime reason for this percieved imbalance in the numbers in the Database. Keith At 18:20 18/06/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Folks > >Ever wonder how many people carry the surnames we are looking for? >Someone shared a Census Bureau page with me. It is fun to use. For >example, I found my Meason line is so rare that I just send an e-mail to >any >Meason I find on the web. As a result, I have made some useful >genealogical >contacts. Chases, as you can see, are not as common as Smith (or White), >but a lot of Chases are out there. > >The URL is: > >http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html > >The site shows the frequency with which a given or surname appeared in a >sample of 7.2 million people in 1990. They found 88,799 unique names in >that sample. Sampling errors, they say, could be large in extremely rare >names. >Chase and Chace are not extremely rare. Aalderink was the least frequent >in the 7.2 million. Smith was most common. The source: U.S. Census Bureau > >Here is how the Chase/Chace names came out: > >Names Search Results ( last ) >NAME frequency rank >CHASE 0.023 percent 508 out of 88,799 unique names >CHACE 0.001 percent 14,957 out of 88,799 unique names > >I think this means there are about 80,000 Chases in the US. Okay, that is >not terribly useful knowledge. > >Dave White > > > > Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)