Is Utah the Hot Spot for Genealogists?
It is probably conventional wisdom that Utah is the hub or capital of the genealogy world. There are companies like The Generations Network (TGN, Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, et al.), Heritage Makers, Heritage Quest, Ancestral Quest, Legacy, Everton's, FamilySearch and the LDS Church, WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink, just to name a few.
I go to many if not most of the Genealogy and Family History conferences and many of the companies with the largest footprints are from Utah.
Genealogy and Family History is an activity that many members of the LDS (Mormon) Church are actively involved in. There are are many Mormons that live in Utah, myself included.
We are very close to getting our 10,000 paid subscriber and I am analyzing the demographics of our customers.I was working on a report that identified the location of our customers and was surprised where Utah was in the ranked list of our subscribers.
It turns out that of the United States, Utah is ranked 17th for the most number of our user in a state. California, Texas, and Florida should come as no surprise because they are very populous states. However, I would have thought that Utah would have been in the top 5 if not the top 10. But 17th?
I would never have guessed that New Jersey, the beautiful Garden State where I have spent quite a bit of time on business, would have more of our users that Utah.
My home state of Tennessee rounded out the top 20 at #20.
According to our Google Analytics on July 11, 2007, this is the ranked order of the top 20 states from where WorldVitalRecords.com's users are from:
I go to many if not most of the Genealogy and Family History conferences and many of the companies with the largest footprints are from Utah.
Genealogy and Family History is an activity that many members of the LDS (Mormon) Church are actively involved in. There are are many Mormons that live in Utah, myself included.
We are very close to getting our 10,000 paid subscriber and I am analyzing the demographics of our customers.I was working on a report that identified the location of our customers and was surprised where Utah was in the ranked list of our subscribers.
It turns out that of the United States, Utah is ranked 17th for the most number of our user in a state. California, Texas, and Florida should come as no surprise because they are very populous states. However, I would have thought that Utah would have been in the top 5 if not the top 10. But 17th?
I would never have guessed that New Jersey, the beautiful Garden State where I have spent quite a bit of time on business, would have more of our users that Utah.
My home state of Tennessee rounded out the top 20 at #20.
According to our Google Analytics on July 11, 2007, this is the ranked order of the top 20 states from where WorldVitalRecords.com's users are from:
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Ohio
- Illinois
- Missouri
- Washington
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Michigan
- Arizona
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Colorado
- New Jersey
- Utah
- Oklahoma
- Kentucky
- Tennessee
posted by David at 4:18 PM
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