FamilySearch Infographics for 2020 Genealogy Highlights

 

If you look at these numbers, you can begin to see the scope of having a totally collaborative Family Tree. There are 1.7 Billion sources on the FamilySearch.org Family Tree at the end of 2020. These are all attached to specific individuals. Think about this huge resource. Where else can you find that many documented people organized by families? Of course, there are some duplicates but overall the Family Tree is becoming more and more reliable as the days and years go by. 

Here is a quote from a news release entitled, "FamilySearch 2020 Genealogy Highlights."

Contributors added nearly 100 million relatives to the FamilySearch Family Tree in 2020 for a total of 1.3 billion people in the world’s largest collaborative—and free—family tree! Users also added 300 million sources from their family records or hints generated by FamilySearch from its growing online record collections. These sources help strengthen the genealogical soundness of ancestor pages.

FamilySearch also made changes in its tree data that will help search engines more effectively index the tree’s content to make it more discoverable online. New features give users the ability to add tags to people they follow in their tree and in Memories; they can now make certain memories private, bookmark an album, create searchable labels (tags), and build slideshows for an ancestor. The popular ancestral fan chart can now be viewed on the Family Tree mobile app, and users can view or print up to seven generations in a variety of fun options.

 You can read the entire article here: https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-2019-year-in-review/comment-page-15/