How many "Wills" for your grandparents' or great-grandparents' surnames are on the FamilySearch Full Text Search feature (see https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text)?I finished my list then realized that lists may contain results for much more than wills. FamilySearch has expanded this collection so the results may include the following: Legal Records, Censuses, Religious Records, Genealogies, Funeral Home Records, Miscellaneous Records, Military Records, Periodicals, School Records, Vital Records, Business Records, Government Records, Reference Materials, Voting Records, Migration Records, and Medical Records.
I didn't go back to narrow the results to only wills so my results include all of the records FamilySearch found for each surname.
These are the results for my grandparents' and great-grandparents' surnames.
- Doyle: 350,391 results
- Gerner: 4,314 results
- Meinzen: 63 results
- Bickerstaff: 4356 results
- Froman: 13,413
- Bartley: 79,132
- Armitage: 30,570
- Thompson: 3,374,976
And these are the results for my second and third great-grandparents' surnames.
- Laws: 3,374,976
- Saylor: 8,497,986
- Stahl: 47,367
- Smith: 11,710,373
- Hartley: 158,093
- Nelson: 2,200,328
- Bell: 2,835,995
I admit I was surprised at the high number of results for some of these surnames. Talk about common names! Thank goodness I can narrow the results by adding a first name; by country, state, and county; or by kind of record.
Thanks for the fun, Randy.
—Nancy.
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Wow! Aside from Meinzen, you had a high number of hits for your surnames. Hope you discover some of the files belong to your ancestors.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Linda! I was surprised. I think it will help to narrow the results by location and then further by category, and then possibly by first name.
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