My Web Site and Family Research 2022 Summary - Sat, 31 Dec 2022

Every year on December 31, I have been summarizing my website page views, family tree counts and DNA matches and putting that on my What’s New page of my lkessler.com website so that I can see how much they’ve changed from the year before. But I’ve never before posted these stats on my blog. This year, I thought I would.

2022 was my website’s 25th year in operation.

• My websites with their page views for 2022 from Google Analytics:
  • lkessler.com: 9,268, down 24%, Max 136 on Jan 27.
  • beholdgenealogy.com: 140,688, up 40%, Max 12,397 on Sept 29.
       No new releases of Behold in 2022. Last release was Version 1.2.7 in Sep 2021.
  • doublematchtriangulator.com: 4,381, down 7%, Max 162 on May 17.
       9 new releases of DMT in 2022. Last release was Version 5.1 in Dec 2022.
  • gensoftreviews.com: 69,713, down 6%. Max 842 on Jan 6.
       Now lists 1065 programs (up 16). There were 230 more user reviews (now totaling 6,358).
• My blog: Added 20 blog articles. The total is now 1,224. My top 5 articles during 2022:
  1. Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies, 2018, 2,500 page views
  2. That’s not very Smart of you, Microsoft, 2021, 1,439 page views
  3. My Whole Genome Sequencing. The VCF File, 2019, 1,355 page views
  4. Ancestry’s Timber Algorithm is Better Than You Think, 2020, 871 page views
  5. My Closest Unknown DNA Matches, 2022, 755 page views
• Behold forum: 125 topics (up 1). 507 posts (up 5).
• Twitter: Posted 127 tweets (now totalling 7,316). Following 216 (up 2). Followers 771 (up 36).
• Facebook: 467 friends (up 15).
• Stackoverflow (Q&A site for programmers): Asked 1 more question (now 129). Gave 2 more answers (now 176). Earned 113 more reputation points (now 19,771) and 16 more badges (now 373). Member for 14 years. 2.2 million people reached. 1,479 votes cast.
  • My Top Question: How Do I Choose Between the Various Ways to do Threading in Delphi? - 65 upvotes.
  • My Top Answer: Strangest Language Feature - 324 upvotes.
• Genealogy Stack Exchange (Q&A site for genealogy): Asked 1 more question (now 27). Gave 3 more answers (now 284). Earned 80 reputation points (now 16,517) and 2 more badges (now 106). Member for 10 years. 465,000 people reached. 538 votes cast.
  • My Top Question: What is the Russian town in this census listing? - 18 upvotes
  • My Top Answer: How should a trip be recorded in my family tree software? - 20 upvotes

My Family Tree information online includes:

• My site at MyHeritage has 5 trees. My main tree: 9,125 people (up 1,270). My niece’s tree (536 people, down 2), my wife’s brother-in-law’s tree (158 people), my friend’s tree (213 people, up 36), and a tree I did in Dec 2022 to help me with the Mark Cuban WikiTree Challenge (182 people). Confirmed record matches: 12,694 (up 3,202) for 3,889 people (up 1,291).
• My trees at other sites are all research trees. I update information where necessary at:
  • Ancestry: 162 people (up 16). 693 hints (up 209).
  • Geni: I manage 19 profiles (no change). My family tree extends to 139 people (up 9).
  • FamilySearch: My contributions: 1,545 (up 4). I’ve manually attached 69 sources (up 4).
  • WikiTree: I now have 253 people on my watch list (up 22). Made 2003 contributions (up 128). I have 315 people connected within 7 degrees of me.
  • Geneanet: I have 4,006 individuals there (no change).
  • genealogyonline: Has my pedigree of 64 people (no change).

My DNA Matches at the companies I tested at and uploaded to:

• Ancestry DNA: 167,591 matches (up 11,767 or 7.6%). I know how I’m related to 25 (up 4). I have 29 ThruLines.
• 23andMe: 1,501 matches (no change. They only show the top 1500 plus people you’ve messaged with). I know how I’m related to 15 (no change).
• MyHeritage DNA: 21,628 matches (up 2,093 or 7.1%). I know how I’m related to 3 (no change). I have 2 Theories of Family Relativity.
• Family Tree DNA: 33,087 matches (up 8,437). I know how I’m related to 3 (no change). I have 1,718 mtDNA matches (up 74), 144 Y-DNA matches at 111 markers (up 4), and 114 Big Y matches (down 1).
• Living DNA: 3,451 matches (up 602 or 21.1%). I know how I’m related to 1 (just my uncle).
• GEDmatch (upload): 3,000 is the number of matches they report. I know how I’m related to 5 (up 1).
• Geni (upload): 2,303 matches (up 338 or 17.2%). I know how I’m related to 0. I have 218 mtDNA matches (up 16 or 7.9%) and 0 Y-DNA matches.
• Geneanet (upload): 1,409 matches (up 388 or 38.0%). I know how I’m related to 1 (just my uncle).
• Borland Genetics (upload): 667 matches. I know how I’m related to 3. My father, my mother and my uncle.

And a few fun statistics for 2022 from my watch:

• I took 2,355,493 steps in 2022 (down 5.0% from 2021). Average 6,453 steps a day. 1,780 km (1,112 miles).
• I took 49 bicycle rides totalling 1,643 km (1,027 miles, up 54% from 2021).
• I had 6 sessions totalling 2.4 hours on the exercise bike I purchased this Fall. (For use in the winter in Winnipeg when outdoor cycling isn’t feasible.)
• My average resting heart rate during 2022 was 62 beats per minute.
• My average amount of sleep per night during 2022 was 7 hrs 21 minutes.