The latest update shows an increase of 1,961,069 in the number of unique records. There are 748,220 more Births. The big increases are for 1870 (230,302) and 1907 (129,809), but there are 6 other years with increases over 20K: 1890 (53,207); 1889 (51,110); 1849 (46,808) 1865 (33,384); 1842 (23,227) and 1900 (20,891) There are 130,423 more Marriages. There are just 4 years with increases over 10K: 1903 (20,062); 1849 (19,216); 1897 (14,828) and 1890 (13,077) There are 1,082,426 more Deaths. The big increases are for 1885 (206,031) and 1884 (154,428), but there are 6 other years with increases over 25K: 1886 (83,167); 1858 (77,790); 1882 (77,691); 1881 (57,135); 1875 (55,627) and 1888 (49,281) Happy searching/transcribing Peter Dauncey

Funny that marriages 1903 and 1890 should both be listed below with increases of 20,000 and 13,000 respectively as they were both showing as 100% on last months graphs. 20,000 records is over 50 pages of typeset! How can estimates of records be so far out?? Or are these second keyings?? If second keyings, shouldn't the graphs show percentages of >twice< the estimated records?? John Fairlie Mail us at ..... john@fairlie.plus.com john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk Home page... http://www.fairlie.plus.com -----Original Message----- From: Peter Dauncey [mailto:peter@dauncey54.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:42 AM To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Latest update The latest update shows an increase of 1,961,069 in the number of unique records. There are 748,220 more Births. The big increases are for 1870 (230,302) and 1907 (129,809), but there are 6 other years with increases over 20K: 1890 (53,207); 1889 (51,110); 1849 (46,808) 1865 (33,384); 1842 (23,227) and 1900 (20,891) There are 130,423 more Marriages. There are just 4 years with increases over 10K: 1903 (20,062); 1849 (19,216); 1897 (14,828) and 1890 (13,077) There are 1,082,426 more Deaths. The big increases are for 1885 (206,031) and 1884 (154,428), but there are 6 other years with increases over 25K: 1886 (83,167); 1858 (77,790); 1882 (77,691); 1881 (57,135); 1875 (55,627) and 1888 (49,281) Happy searching/transcribing Peter Dauncey ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Quoting John Fairlie <john.fairlie@blueyonder.co.uk>: > Funny that marriages 1903 and 1890 should both be listed below with > increases of 20,000 and 13,000 respectively as they were both showing as > 100% on last months graphs. 20,000 records is over 50 pages of typeset! > How can estimates of records be so far out?? Or are these second keyings?? > > If second keyings, shouldn't the graphs show percentages of >twice< the > estimated records?? The graphs compare the number of separate records (ie double keyings count only as one record) against the GRO provided figures. This is NOT and cannot be an exact science; 1) The GRO figures are known to be understated, because they relate to numbers of events, and the number of index entries exceeds the number of events. 2) Unmatched double keyings will show as 2 records. A comparison of total keyings against twice the expected total would be even more misleading. A quarter that was 100% complete on first keying, and 2% double keyed would show as 51% which is totally misleading as to coverage. If anybody thinks they can produce better figures from the data, they are welcome to try! -- Dave Mayall ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net