My Semi-Genealogy Day - 31 December 2014

Another year completed...where does the time go?  I'm now 71 years old, so that's about 25,980 sunrises.  The big family news this year was the birth of grandson Charlie in September - that makes 5 grandchildren.  

It was cold last night (below 40F here), and cold today (a high of about 52F), and snow in the foothills down to 1500 feet last night.  That happens every ten years or so.

*  Read email and blogs, then wrote BB Guns and Coonskin Caps at Christmas 1954 -- Post 340 for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday and Top 20 Most Popular Posts on Genea-Musings From 2014 and set it for later.

*  We left at 10:40 a.m. for Carlsbad to meet Tami and the girls at In 'n' Out for lunch, then brought the Sweethearts of Huntington Beach home with us.  We got home by 1 p.m.

*The girls played by themselves, watched videos and TV, read books, etc.  I checked Facebook, answered email and wrote Dear Randy: How Do You Use Notes and Sources in RootsMagic 7?

*  We went to dinner at El Pollo Loco at 5:15 p.m. and were home by 6:30.  The girls and I had Dove bars for dessert.  They played and read, and I answered email and read blogs and checked Facebook off and on.  Linda was on her Chromebook and needed help almost every minute for awhile there.  Audrey and I had a little party in her room, then played balloon soccer in the family room.

*  At 8:30 p.m., we went to the family room and watched the New Year's activities in New York - the girls were excited, counted down the last minute, and cheered on the hour and kissed everybody.

*  Added to the Best Of post, and wrote the New Year's post, and then this post.  Genealgoy today was about 5.0 hours.

Here are the numbers from my RootsMagic database as of 31 December (with increases in the numbers from 8 December 2014 in parentheses):

* 43,986 persons (+ 4)
* 17,572 families  (+ 19)
* 136,426 events  (+ 241)
* 7,837 places  (+ 15)
* 1,135 sources (+ 4)
* 57,783 citations (+ 257)
*  1,071 Multi-media Items (+ 2)
*  2,888 Multimedia links (+ 4)

 I'm up to 42.35%  (+0.10%) for citations/events and 131.37% (+0.55%) for citations/persons.

Genea-Musings statistics for December (compared to stats for November 2014):

*  Genea-Musings traffic rank:  Worldwide: 288,951; US: 77,873 (Alexa)

*  114,321 page views (3,688 per day, Blogger Stats, -77)
* 19.910 web page visits (642 per day, Site-meter) (-69)
* 30,800 page views (994 per day, Site-meter) (-90) 

*  >1,100 readers on Feedly (+??)

*  1,586 readers via email (Feedburner) (+ 17)

Industry database statistics for 31 December 2014:

*  32,529 Ancestry.com Databases (+ 17)
*  2,147,483,647 profiles in Public Member Trees on Ancestry.com (unchanged)
*  3,854 Birth Marriage and Death Databases on Ancestry.com (+7)
*  577 Census and Voter List Databases on Ancestry.com (+2)
*  113,551,253 Entries in U.S. Find A Grave Database on Ancestry.com (+1)
*  94,331,869 Entries in Social Security Death Index Database on Ancestry.com (+ 0)

*  1,870 Record Collections on FamilySearch (+13)
*  869 United States Record Collections on FamilySearch (+11)
*  171 Census and Lists Record Collections on FamilySearch (+1)
*  1,088 Birth, Marriage and Death Record Collections on FamilySearch (+5)
*  93,946,127 Entries in Social Security Death Index on FamilySearch (unchanged)
*  124,060,301 entries in Find A Grave on FamilySearch (unchanged)

*  423,803 Databases on Mocavo.com (+0)

*  5,708,072,169 Historical Records on MyHeritage.com (+0)
*  64,803,737 MyHeritage member profiles*  1,410,940,996 Profiles in MyHeritage Family Trees (+10.7352,333)
*  140,439,379 Profiles in Geni.com World Family Tree (-3,077,393)

*  1,532 Record Collections on FindMyPast.com (+20)
*  558 U.S. Record Collections on FindMyPast.com (+5)
*  581 United Kingdom Record Collections on FindMyPast.com (+12)