- FamilySearch has nearly 24 million monthly visits
- 1.68 billion persons in Family Tree
- 156 million persons added to Family Tree in 2024
- "a person is never deleted for good!"
- "FamilySearch is the largest linked tree as of 2024"
- Nearly 20 million memories attached
- Nearly 3.5 billion sources added (up 1 billion in 1 year)
- Nearly 5.6 billion digital images
- Nearly 700,000 digital books
- Nearly 20 billion searchable names
- Can search in 48 different languages (Arabic the latest)
- Are 6580 FamilySearch centers in the world
- The goal is to correctly/accurately identify each person
- Striving to slow down inaccurate merging
Todd smiled and said, "As each of us improves the documentation for each ancestor or person in our tree, we can increase the odds of folks making goofy changes....that does drive us crazy!"And he explained that they're really concerned about and working on fixing wrong matches and "people changing stuff without documentation."
He ended his lively presentation with this: "Quit complaining... learn to use the available tools to full advantage!!'
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