FAMILY HISTORY SURVEY RESULTS

I just received the results from an online family history survey done by blogger Myles Proudfoot of the blog http://familyhistory21ster.blogspot.com/  The survey is quite detailed, but if you are curious, the link below will open the results in MS Word format.

I found it interesting that it is a link to his Dropbox account, and I taught that use of Dropbox in my class just last Thursday.

I also noted that it disagrees with Kory Myerink's rating for the most frequently used genealogy websites, and is much closer to what I would expect.


Bill
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FAMILY HISTORY SURVEY          April 2011

Methodology 

  The Family History Survey was fielded March 12 to April 5 2011. Respondents were self-selecting, linking to the survey from Twitter feeds, genealogy blogs posts, Facebook pages, LinkedIn and email forwards

•  1050 respondents were recorded (I was expecting about 200). 954 respondents completed the survey. Resulting in a 91% completion rate
•  A variety of genealogists responded to the survey from the inexperienced to highly proficient. I make no claim to be have a random representative sample. There is a respondent skew towards those more connected via social media.
•  Survey completion length was typically 15-20 minutes
•  Final survey wording can be found here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10556467/Questionnaire%20Final.htm