How many people know what Genealogy is and do it on a regular basis?

Hwa Waterford: If you do on a regular basis (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly), you say YES, if you don't, you say NO. I don't want to see long winded "answers", they're not what I'm looking for, no offense to Maxi and Ted Pack.

Lana Uliano: Many people do genealogy, some research others think it means paying a website subscription and copying what they find.... in so far as that goes, it is the second group of people who even think about "how far back they get" and are generally only interested in large impressive trees regardless of proving no one in it., the first group think about proof and citing and then they know regardless of how far they have got back each and every person they have in their tree belongs there.Same goes for your other question as our ancestors do not change and regardless of the repeating myths generally people are not related to anyone 'special' nor are they related to Royalty, the first group it seems they believe those myths and copy ! accordingly and the second group of researchers, well everyone of their ancestors are special to them as they are part of their ancestry be they agr labs, miners or sailors So daily research? Maybe over time, at times and sometimes doing no research for a while, more likely like any other hobby it is about the years of on/off research that is done and as it is a lifetime 'hobby' it never ends there are always new records that become available to view and learn about, there are always ways to improve such as learning how to read and decipher the languages old records are written in and learn how to read the script which is often very different to today's writing styles to learn or in researching the record system of different countries which are completely different to your own country....Show more

Fritz Hawkey: Most people know what it is. Most people know what skeet shooting and crossword puzzles are, too. A lot less actually do it, in all three cases.Figuring out h! ow many people do it would be tough. It is popular enough to s! upport commercial ventures - Ancestry.com, for instance. You can tell crosswords are popular because most newspapers print one every day, and if they suggest not running it they get complaints. But, you can't tell how many people do one (or more) every day. The same with genealogy. Ancestry might tell you how many subscribers they had, and you could multiply by 2, 5 or 10 to estimate how many people were interested, but not interested enough to subscribe.I've found some interesting names; "Shetter", for instance, that, a fourth of the time, gets written "Shelter" or "Shetler" because the clerk didn't cross both T's.I've gone back to people alive in 1850 on most of my lines.This is an example of poor genealogy, from my research:There were two ladies named "Buena Vista Freeman" born in Tennessee in the middle 1800's. One was born in Bedford county in 1847/48, the other 80 miles away, in Robertson County, in 1853/54. In the 1860 census the Bedford county one, and all of her fa! mily, were indexed as "Fruman" because the two e's in "Freeman" were so skinny they looked like a "u".In 1863 a WJ Brown marries a Buena Vista Freeman in Bedford County. Common sense would tell you that even in Tennessee, 9 or 10 was too young to get married, and people didn't routinely have their wives shipped in from 80 miles away. That suspicion, in turn, would make a CAREFUL researcher look for any woman named "Buena" in Bedford county, and, there she is, pretty much, in 1860, "Buenavesta Fruman", age 12, Western Division District 19, Bedford, Tennessee. Her father is just "A.", her mother is Mary. 15 is young to get married by today's standards, but she was probably close to 16 (the census asked how old you were on your last birthday) and that was pretty common back then.Nevertheless, in August 2013 six of the seven family trees on Ancestry.com who had WJ Brown had him marrying the Robertson county Buena Vista, when she was 10. (That number may have gone down, if the p! eople who had her read the comments I added.)...Show more

Phillip! Modafferi: I've traced my ancestry back to BC times"..Bull feces. You don't have a clue what genealogy is or how to prove ancestry. But you got balls to set "acceptable" answers from persons who do research "once in a while". Try learning from persons who have 30+ yrs of experience, including some of that being professional.

Gaynell Pizzaro: Most people know what genealogy is, and I suspect that many like me get enthusiastic about researching from time to time but life is busy otherwise. For me, the furthest back is one ancestral strand which goes back to a documented marriage in January 1825. There have been many interesting facts, but no royalty.

Luther Plagmann: More and more people are into Geneology since the internet makes it easier to get birth and death records, grave records etc. I don't know how many do it on a regular basis, some just aren't concerned about it.I live in the Midwest and have been able to trace family history on my dad's side of the! family to some royalty in England. On his side also, my 4 x great grandmother was well known in Missouri history and was a cousin to Daniel Boone....Show more

Jude Colbenson: I meant how many people that see this question, not how many around the world or just in the U.S.A.

Lupe Sancen: Most likely at the very least a few hundred thousand actually "KNOW" what Genealogy is, how to perform actual genealogy research and do it on a regular basis (like several times a week - or daily).

Luke Gacusan: No, I don't. I'm a christian.