I have wanted to know the number of people by given name if it were easy to figure out. We have so many Abraham's and Daniel's, etc. and it would be great to list in our family history book the top 5 or 10 names by century or something. For those of us doing books on our families, it might be helpful. I have found that the non-genealogists in the family really like the charts and graphs of info that we can provide to them whether they are easily produced by Legacy or not.
God bless, Ellen On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:55 PM, 2marion wimps wrote: > Thanks Kathy - different strokes for different folks I guess - I have no > interest in the number of Given Names and cannot see any situation where I > would be - my interest lies with the people, their backgrounds, history and > family - and I can easily see how many John's there were in a certain family > - finding out that I had several hundred other John's that had no connection > to a particular family would not seem to help me. As I said - different > strokes. > Marion > > > On 22 November 2013 08:34, Kathy Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > If a person is doing a one name study, and therefore all the surnames are, > for example, Johnson, they might like to know how many John Johnson's there > are. > > Similarly with a one place study, how many people named George lived in that > one place. > > Yes, they are statistical counts, but then, if you really think about about > it, so is the whole realm of family history, it's all about statistics. > Statistics that build up and when put together in a logical order, form the > bones of the story of a person's life. > > > > > > > On 22 November 2013 10:16, 2marion wimps <[email protected]> wrote: > I am struggling to understand why anyone would want a count of people with > Given Names - I can understand a count of Surnames but a count of Given Names > to me seems purely accountancy fuelled - not Genealogy - perhaps someone > could explain the reasoning? > > Marion > > > On 21 November 2013 22:17, Brian/Support <[email protected]> wrote: > Because of the design of the Database you can get easily get that for > Surnames but not for Forenames. Surnames are stored in a single Master > Surname List but Given Names are not in a table so Legacy cannot "count" > occurrences. > > To do so for Forenames we would have to parse every Given Name field > looking for the break between Given Names to Create a list of Forenames. > We would then have to sort the list and count the duplicates to > determine how many times John or Jerry are used. 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