On 15 February 2011 11:22, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:33 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We can establish a lower >> bound since the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over >> 1,335,000 biographies. > > The 2007 edition of the ODNB (British biographical history) has > "50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives". What criteria > are used for the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center? We don't > have an article on that, though we do have this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography_and_Genealogy_Master_Index > > "The Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) was a printed > reference index, and is currently a proprietary database published by > the Gale Research Company. The database indexes more than 15 million > individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 > biographical reference sources." > > It that something different? > > http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=BDMI&edition > > Carcharoth
It's something listed at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
