The Rate of Success for Users of GEDCOMP

All submitted files with information about more than 2544 persons has given the submitter at least one email regarding overlap with a file submitted by another genealogist.

Among the remaining, smaller files the observed rate of success by submission of information about X number of persons, where X is at most 2544:

X	X	Rate of Success
From	To	%
1090	1571	99
802	1089	99
581	801	99
428	580	98
307	427	98
208	306	97
144	207	95
85	143	89
37	84	83
1	36	41

The table is constructed in the following way: The GEDCOM-files that until now have been submitted to GEDCOMP with information about at most 2544 persons have been placed according to the number of persons they contain information about in 10 groups with each group containing the same number of files.
The %-age in each group is the rate of files in this group, where the submitter has received at least one email regarding an overlap with information submitted by another genealogist.

Because GEDCOMP initially was for Danish genealogy, GEDCOM files with information on Danes have an even higher the rate of success.

Out of 3.029 GEDCOM-files 2.807 files have elicited a total of 254.141 emails regarding overlap.

Updated: Saturday 2012-02-04 14:35:26