Statistics (Pro)

The Statistics hub (Pro) turns your tree into interactive charts and insights, from lifespans and family sizes to a data-quality score that shows where your research could use attention.

Address: /genealogy/statistics/. Visitors reach it from the Statistics card on the genealogy hub or the View full statistics link.

Using the page

• Filter by Tree to view all trees or one.
• Switch between four tabs: Overview, Demographics, Family Structure, and Data Quality.
• Charts are interactive. Click a bar or tile to see the people behind it.

Overview

• Totals for people (by gender), families, surnames, sources, and places.
• Tree at a glance – years of history, number of family names, and birth countries.
• Data quality grade and score.
• Date Ranges & Lifespan – birth dates, death dates, average lifespan, and tree span.
• Gender Distribution
• Births by Decade – click a bar to see who was born then.
• Top 10 Surnames – click a bar to see everyone with that surname.
• Top Birth Countries, Top Male Names, and Top Female Names

Demographics

• Died Before Age 5, Died Before Age 18, and Centenarians – click to view the people.
• Oldest Men and Oldest Women
• Birth Months and Death Months
• Age at Death
• Average Age at Death by Decade – decades with fewer than 5 deaths are left out.

Family Structure

• Married More Than Once, No Children Recorded, and One Parent Unknown
• Age at First Marriage and Spouse Age Gap
• Mother’s Age at Children’s Births
• Most Marriages and Children per Family
• Average Children by Marriage Decade
• Largest Families and Largest Spouse Age Gaps

Data Quality

This tab is a research to-do list as much as a statistic.

• Coverage – birth date coverage, death date coverage, and complete records.
• Missing information – missing surnames, gender, birth places, and death places.
• Coverage & Connectivity – uncited people, people with no media, unlinked media, isolated people, and ungeocoded places.
• Data Quality Insights – an overall quality score and grade, weighted across dates, places, sources, family links, media, surnames, and gender, with points taken off for data problems.
• Biggest opportunities – with View list links to the people involved.
• Possible data problems – such as impossible dates, unlikely parent ages, or likely duplicates.
• Quick wins – easy fixes, such as people with a birth date but no birth place.

Improving your numbers

ForeBranch only displays your tree. To improve the report:

1. Use the lists on the Data Quality tab to find people who need attention.
2. Make corrections in your genealogy software.
3. Export a new GEDCOM and re-import it with Update tree.

Ungeocoded places can be fixed directly in ForeBranch with ForeBranch → Places → Geocoding.