Statistics notebook
Explore the Gonsalves family tree through numbers. Pick a topic below to see charts and summaries for that part of the archive.
What would you like to explore?
Each section below answers a different research question about the tree. Choose one to see charts, counts, and patterns for that topic — or browse them all.
- Names
What names run in the family?
The most popular first names and surnames, how common they are, and how their frequency compares across the tree.
- · Most common first names
- · Name frequency spread
- · Most common surnames
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- Individuals
Who is in the tree?
Counts, sex distribution, lifespan statistics, birth and death trends by decade, and how people connect to families.
- · Longest-lived members
- · Youngest at death
- · Sex & living status
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- Families
How are families structured?
Children per household, marriage patterns, divorce rates, and which places appear most on marriage records.
- · Partners recorded
- · Marriage decades
- · Marriage places
- Events
What life events are recorded?
Every birth, death, marriage, burial, immigration, and other life event — how many have dates and places, and which decades they cluster in.
- · Event types
- · Events over time
- · Event locations
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- Places
Where did the family live?
Every location in the tree — the countries, regions, and parishes where the family was born, married, and died.
- · How places are used
- · Most-referenced places
- · Countries
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- Dates
What time periods are covered?
How complete date coverage is, the spread across centuries, precision levels, and which calendar systems appear.
- · Which records have dates
- · Most-referenced dates
- · Date precision
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- Media
What documents and photos exist?
Photos, certificates, scans, and other media objects — how many there are, what types, and which records they're linked to.
- · Tags on media
- · Locations in media
- · Dates in media
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- Open Questions
What is still unknown?
Outstanding research questions, unresolved gaps, and which people, families, and events have the most unknowns.
- · Resolved vs open
- · People with most questions
- · Media with questions
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- Notes
What are the research notes?
The collection of research notes in the tree — how many, how long, and which people, events, and sources they're attached to.
- · Where notes live
- · Most-referenced notes
- · People with most notes
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- Lineages
Which family lines run through the tree?
Surname-based family lines — the founding families and all their descendants, how large each line is, and how far back each one goes.
- · Largest family lines
- · Size distribution
- · Oldest family lines
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- Branches
Is the tree fully connected?
Whether all people in the tree are connected to each other through family links, or whether isolated groups exist with no path to the main family.
- · Branch sizes
- · Main vs isolated