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Last Updated September 12, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Think you know everything about your family tree? Well, think again, because MyHeritage has introduced a fascinating feature that reveals the answers to questions about your tree you never even knew you had \u2013 Family Statistics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Your work as a family historian is to uncover as many facts as possible about your ancestors. These facts \u2014 dates, places, and other details \u2014 help to tell the story about these individuals and the larger family as a whole. But what about your tree itself? What sort of stories can it tell?<\/span><\/p>\n As it turns out, there\u2019s a lot of interesting information to glean from your family tree. Whether it contains 50 people or 5,000 people, you can learn a lot from your tree\u2019s statistics by exploring its analytics, analyzing its data, and exploring its trends. MyHeritage has found a way to present these stats that\u2019s visually lovely, easy to read, and full of insights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can also use this information to improve your family tree. Most of the data presented in MyHeritage Family Statistics invites you to dig deeper, letting you dive directly into your MyHeritage family tree to update details and improve, correct, or refine your ancestors\u2019 profiles. As you work through the analytics, you\u2019ll learn not only about the folks from whom you descend, but also ways to become a better, more thoughtful, and more focused genealogist. Read on, and we\u2019ll show you how.<\/span><\/p>\n Make Instant Discoveries in Your Family Tree Now Imagine adding your family tree to a simple website and getting hundreds of new family history discoveries instantly.<\/b><\/p>\n MyHeritage is offering 2 free weeks of access to their extensive collection of 20 billion historical records, as well as their matching technology that instantly connects you with new information about your ancestors<\/b>. Sign up using the link below to find out what you can uncover about your family. Discover New Genealogy Records Instantly<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Please note that we sometimes work with MyHeritage and other genealogy companies to bring you information about their new features. We may receive a fee if you make purchases via some links in this article. This helps us keep Family History Daily\u2019s content free for all.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Family Statistics is an exclusive feature included at no additional cost for all MyHeritage users. To find your tree\u2019s personalized Family Statistics page, navigate to the Home dropdown on the main page of your MyHeritage family website.<\/span><\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t yet uploaded your tree to MyHeritage (and have a tree under 250 people) you can sign up at no cost for limited access (scroll to the bottom of the page for the free sign up link). If you have a tree larger than 250 or would like to take advantage of their expansive record collections, instant discoveries and unique tools you can\u00a0use a two week free trial here.<\/p>\n Note that if you manage more than one tree site on MyHeritage, you will have the option to aggregate or combine statistics from all of the trees in the Family Statistics results. For our purposes, we\u2019re showing results from one tree only.<\/span><\/p>\n The sleek new and improved presentation of Family Statistics includes dozens of stats covering the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n 20 Billion Genealogy Records Are Free for 2 Weeks Get two full weeks of free access to more than 20 billion genealogy records right now. You\u2019ll also gain access to the MyHeritage discoveries tool that locates information about your ancestors automatically<\/b> when you upload or create a tree. What will you discover about your family\u2019s past?<\/p>\n Claim My Free Record Access Now<\/b><\/span>Gender, Status, and Names<\/span>Relationships<\/span>Places<\/span>Ages<\/span>Births<\/span>Marriages<\/span>Children\u00a0<\/span>Divorces<\/span><\/p>\n Each of these sections contains several graphics representing various information gathered from your tree.<\/span><\/p>\n The first time you access your tree\u2019s Family Statistics option, it may take a moment for MyHeritage to load and display your results, especially if you have a large tree. Soon, though, you\u2019ll see the Overview screen, which presents visual representations of the genders of the people in your tree, the number of living and deceased, and their relationship status.<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019d probably agree that most of the individuals in your tree has a gender. Unfortunately, the Gender section of my tree\u2019s overview shows that I have not noted the gender of 179 people. That\u2019s a fact that should be reflected in each profile, so I need to fix it. Thankfully, MyHeritage offers an easy way to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n When I click the line under the graph that shows 179 Unknown genders, MyHeritage takes me to a listing of those people. I can easily click each and update their gender information one by one.<\/span><\/p>\n While it may be true that some of the people in the list produced by MyHeritage are indeed alive, I don\u2019t believe that 1,555 of the 8,000+ in my tree are still living. Using the \u201cSort by\u201d tool at the top of the list, I can sort it by the earliest birth date, which in my case revealed folks all the way back to the 1500s who are showing up in my tree as Living. Again, I can use the list to fix these errors one at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n The Family Statistics Overview page has even more to offer! Scroll down further and you\u2019ll see three word clouds full of names. Each shows the 15 most common names that appear in your tree: Last names, male first names, and female first names. The more common the name, the larger it appears in the graphic.<\/span><\/p>\n Although much of the information presented in MyHeritage Family Statistics was previously available to users (in a much less attractive and user-friendly format), the Relationship data is brand new. This page offers six charts to expand your knowledge of how you\u2019re related:<\/span><\/p>\n General<\/b> breaks down exactly <\/span>how<\/span><\/i> people are related to you (blood relatives, related by marriage or adoption, descendants, ancestors, etc.).<\/span>Steps away from you<\/b> shows the number of people in your tree who are one step, two steps, three steps, etc. away from you.<\/span>Generation difference from you<\/b> shows the people in your family tree according to the number of generations apart they are from you.<\/span>Marriages away from you<\/b> shows how people are related to you without marriage (your blood relatives), by one marriage, by two marriages, and by three marriages.<\/span>How people are related to you<\/b> through the members of your immediate family (through your father, mother, siblings, spouse, etc.)<\/span>Your blood relatives<\/b> is a massive ancestral chart showing the relationship you have with everyone with whom you share DNA as a relative by blood.<\/span><\/p>\n Whew! That\u2019s a lot of detail about how we\u2019re related to the dozens or hundreds or thousands of people in our family tree. How can we leverage this information to advance our genealogical knowledge or improve our tree?<\/span><\/p>\n Like the Family Statistics graphs in the Overview, the charts and graphs in the Relationship tab are \u201cclickable.\u201d For example, if I click on the purple block in the Your Blood Relatives chart pictured below that indicates I have 78 second cousins, MyHeritage will present a list of each of those 78 second cousins. Additionally, this chart helps us better understand our cousin relationships (which, by the way, <\/span>Family History Daily recently explained in great detail<\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n Another fun relationship statistic to explore is contained in the \u201cGeneration difference\u201d chart. Clicking \u201cSame generation as you\u201d produces a list of everyone in your tree who is, well, in the same generation as you (as the title promises). Sometimes as family historians we tend to limit our thoughts about folks in our generation as those who are close to us in age, but when it comes to our family tree, a generation can include individuals in a wide range of ages. The listing provided by MyHeritage Family Statistics shows you exactly who in your tree is included in your generation.<\/span><\/p>\n The most helpful use of the Relationships charts might be found in the first graphic, titled General. The last metric in the chart measures the number of people in your tree who aren\u2019t related to you by blood or marriage. This means that they\u2019re floating somewhere in the ether of your family tree, but not ultimately connected to you. Clicking this section of the graph will take you to a list of these folks so you can determine how they are related and reconnect them, or delete them if they are truly unrelated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The next three tabs \u2014 Places, Ages, and Births \u2014 are chock full of fascinating details about the folks in your MyHeritage family tree.<\/span><\/p>\n After Relationships, you\u2019ll want to explore the Places tab in MyHeritage Family Statistics. Inside you\u2019ll find three sections of data:<\/span><\/p>\n Places of birth,\u00a0<\/span>Places of death, and<\/span>Places of residence.<\/span><\/p>\n Places are listed at the country level, not by state or county. As this information is based on the family tree you\u2019ve built in MyHeritage, the listings and maps in the Places section will only display countries you\u2019ve included in your tree.<\/span><\/p>\n The next Family Statistics tab, Ages, offers six helpful charts:<\/span><\/p>\n Age distribution<\/b> (how many living people in your tree are in each 10-year age group)<\/span>Oldest living people <\/b>(oldest people with birth dates but no death dates)<\/span>Youngest living people<\/b> (youngest people with birth dates but no death dates)<\/span>Average life expectancy<\/b> (based on life span of people with both birth and death dates)<\/span>Lived the most<\/b> (people with oldest life spans based on birth and death dates in your tree)<\/span>Lived the least<\/b> (people with the shortest life spans based on birth and death dates in your tree)<\/span><\/p>\n While all of this information is fascinating for any family historian, the Ages charts and the included features can also be super useful in helping you shore up gaps in your tree\u2019s data. For example, I am pretty sure the two individuals in my Oldest Living People chart did not both live to be 120 years old; in fact, the Family Statistics program has assigned this age because I don\u2019t have death dates for these folks in my tree and have not marked them as deceased. <\/span><\/p>\n MyHeritage makes it easy to remedy this problem, right from the Oldest living People chart. I can either click the link in the words \u201cMark as deceased\u201d or open the three-dot menu to dig deeper into the person\u2019s place in the tree or their profile, or perform more research.<\/span><\/p>\n You may notice a unique feature in the last section of Ages, Lived the Least; there\u2019s an \u201cX\u201d in the upper right corner that allows you to delete this particular section from the Ages page. You\u2019ll find this option on various sections throughout the Family Statistics pages, but not on all sections.<\/span><\/p>\n Births is the next section in the Family Statistics suite, offering three graphics:<\/span><\/p>\n Birth months<\/span>Zodiac signs<\/span>When were people born (by decade or century)<\/span><\/p>\n These charts aren\u2019t clickable, but they\u2019re still quite interesting! I mean, how else would I have known that most of my ancestors were born in March and were Pisces?<\/span><\/p>\n The Marriages tab, which follows Births, pulls a ton of fascinating data from your MyHeritage family tree \u2014 more than any other category. Charts include:<\/span><\/p>\n Number of marriages (per individual)<\/span>Married the most<\/span>When people were married (by decade or century)<\/span>Age at marriage<\/span>Oldest when married<\/span>Youngest when married<\/span>Marriage duration in years<\/span>Longest marriage\u00a0<\/span>Shortest marriage\u00a0<\/span>Average age difference (in bride and groom)<\/span>Husband much older<\/span>Wife much older<\/span><\/p>\n Another common family tree problem highlighted by the information in the Marriages tab is found in the Youngest When Married chart. It\u2019s highly unlikely that my male ancestor was married at 11 years old, and a female ancestor was married at 10 years old \u2014 especially since the section shows me her groom was 37 years old at the time. Again, Family Statistics is providing valuable information (and an incentive) to help me strengthen the validity of my tree!<\/span><\/p>\n The Children tab is also quite robust, with charts including:<\/span><\/p>\n Number of children per family<\/span>Family with the most children<\/span>People with most children<\/span>Age when having children<\/span>Youngest when had a child<\/span>Age difference between oldest and youngest children<\/span>Largest age difference between oldest and youngest children<\/span>Smallest age difference between oldest and youngest children<\/span><\/p>\n Like the previous sections, the Children page helps to highlight some of the most glaring issues in your family tree. Siblings born 222 years apart? A mother who gave birth at age 12 months? A father who had a child at age 264? Sigh. (Imagine me hanging my head in shame!) Luckily, these issues are easily resolved by clicking the ancestor\u2019s name and making much-needed corrections.<\/span><\/p>\n I personally appreciate both the Marriage and Children sections for displaying details that really normalize the stories in my family tree. So often we family historians believe the long-held myths that our ancestors married as pre-teens, had 20 children, and died young. Of course, there are situations where these adages are true, but they\u2019re the exception, not the norm. <\/span><\/p>\n In my tree, for example, the average age at marriage was 26.9 for males and 22 for females; the average number of children per family was 2.2; and the average life expectancy was 63 and 64 for males and females, respectively. These statistics are not much different than today\u2019s demographics.<\/span><\/p>\n Divorces, the last page in Family Statistics, showcases data you might not always think about when researching your family history, but can prove extremely helpful. There\u2019s a lot of information to be found in divorce records \u2014 check out this great <\/span>Family History Daily article by Janet Meydam about exploring divorce records<\/span> to learn more!<\/span><\/p>\n According to MyHeritage Family Statistics, my personal family tree only includes 38 people who divorced; I find this hard to believe. Although the records can be challenging to locate, divorces have been recorded in the United States in various forms since the early 1700s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Divorces tab contains six charts:<\/span><\/p>\n Number of divorces\u00a0<\/span>Divorced the most<\/span>Longest marriage ending in divorce<\/span>Age when divorced<\/span>Oldest when divorced<\/span>Youngest when divorced<\/span><\/p>\n Like most of the other sections throughout the Family Statistics tabs, most of the Divorces charts are clickable and can be expanded to show the Top 3 or Top 10 in the category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As we\u2019ve explored each tab and chart included in MyHeritage Family Statistics, we\u2019ve detailed several ways you can use the charts pulled from your tree to update the information in your tree by flagging missing dates, highlighting deceased individuals who aren\u2019t marked as deceased, and recognizing anomalies in ages.<\/span><\/p>\n One of the best aspects of Family Statistics is that it updates every time you open it. As you correct errors and add missing detail, you should begin to see a much more accurate picture of your family based on your MyHeritage family tree. Plus, the more people and information you add to your family tree, the more interesting your statistics will become. You\u2019ll have more than enough random stats to share with your relatives at the next family reunion. Good luck, and have fun!<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you to\u00a0Patricia Hartley<\/strong>\u00a0for creating this guide. Patricia has been researching family history for over 30 years and has an M.A. in Public Relations\/Mass Communications from Kent State University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Family Statistics From MyHeritage Offers a Unique Way to Improve Your Tree Last Updated September 12, 2024 Ancestry 50% Off Gift Memberships for Black Friday (Gift to Anyone, Even Yourself!) Think you know everything about your family tree? Well, think again, because MyHeritage has introduced a fascinating feature that reveals the answers to questions about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-guides","tag-db"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Family Statistics? Your tree, by the numbers<\/span><\/h2>\n
Finding Family Statistics on the MyHeritage site<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Pretty interesting stuff, right? It\u2019s pretty cool to know, for example, that I have significantly more males than females in my tree, and that the number of single folks is almost as high as the number of married people. But how does this information help you improve your tree?<\/span><\/p>\nQuick fixes<\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/picture><\/noscript>You can use the information in the other two graphs in a similar way. For example, clicking on the Living portion of the Living vs. Deceased graph shows all the individuals in my tree whose profiles are missing death dates or are not marked as deceased. <\/span><\/p>\nWhat\u2019s in a name?<\/span><\/h4>\n
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When you hover over a particular name, MyHeritage will show you exactly how many people in your tree have that moniker. I found it interesting that James, the third most common male first name in my tree with 348 entries, is the name I chose for my son \u2014 and at the time I had no idea how many of his ancestors shared his name.<\/span><\/p>\nAll about your ancestors\u2019 relationships<\/span><\/h4>\n
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My generation, yeah<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Another tool to improve your tree<\/span><\/h4>\n![\"MyHeritage](\"http:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Statistics-8.png\")
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Places, ages, and births, oh my!<\/span><\/h4>\n![\"Screenshot](\"http:\/\/www.whogenealogydna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Statistics-9.png\")
<\/picture><\/noscript><\/p>\nMarried (and divorced) \u2026 with children<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Like all of the data in MyHeritage Family Statistics, the data presented in the graphics is only as reliable as what you\u2019ve entered into your tree. Therefore, when I see in my Longest Marriage chart that an ancestor was married for 270 years, I can easily see that this person\u2019s details are entered incorrectly in my tree \u2014 either I haven\u2019t listed death dates or haven\u2019t marked this person as deceased.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSweet children of mine (and my ancestors)<\/span><\/h4>\n
Last, but not least<\/span><\/h4>\n
Next steps with Family Statistics<\/span><\/h3>\n