Numbers – 27 Nov
Nov 27th, 2009 by sharbrough
Two quick lists for today.
The 10 titles which are 100% complete, containing less than 1000 images
- Photos – WW II Japanese FREE
- Civil War Soldiers – Union – UT
- Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Photographs FREE
- Custer’s Court Martial FREE
- Constitutional Convention Records FREE
- Foreign Letters of the Continental Congress FREE
- Photos – Coolidge FREE
- Photos – Eisenhower FREE
- Amistad – Federal court records FREE
- Town Records – Goffstown NH FREE
What’s the takeaway?
Footnote contains a combination of short and long titles. You would not want to judge the value of a title based on its size.
NOTE: The word “FREE” in a title means that it was free on Footnote.com on 17-Nov.
The titles having more than 250,000 images remaining to be completed on 24-Nov.
- Navy Survivors’ Certificates. 14,000,000 to go. There’s a good chance that this number is high, by up to five million.
- Texas Death Certificates UPDATED. 2,100,000
- Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880. 1,370,000
- News – Poughkeepsie Journal UPDATED. 1,000,000
- Naturalizations – NY Southern UPDATED. 800,000
- Apollo Missions FREE. 650,000
- Civil War Soldiers – Union – MO UPDATED. 580,000
- Census – US Federal 1900 NEW UPDATED. 490,000
- WWII Captured German Records FREE UPDATED. 395,000
- Texas Birth Certificates. 350,000
- Census – US Federal 1910 NEW. 332,000
- Census – US Federal 1920 NEW. 300,000
- Naturalizations – NY Eastern. 276,000
NOTE: Remaining images are calculated from percentages, not from exact title sizes. As such, they are only estimates, and therefore rounded.
This last list does not include the “Widow’s Certificates.” There are about 165 million pages of these. Footnote and FamilySearch are in a pilot project to do 500,000, which is nearing completion.
What’s the takeaway?
Footnote tries to publish complete titles. This aids records custodians, because they can use the digital copy for circulation and reference, and retire the film or paper documents. It benefits researchers, because they can infer important information from a search, even if it does not include the name they seek. Footnote produced approximately 10 million images in the past year. If production continues at that rate, and if the count on the Survivor’s certificates is correct, something on this list will not be complete in late November, 2011. I rather suspect that it till be done sooner.
Also, notice that six of the thirteen titles say UPDATED. That’s a sign the they have had pages added recently, and are in current production. Three of them say NEW, and those are also in current production. One might expect more additions in the short term from titles that are in those groups.
