JewishGen FactSheet — Just the Facts…

The mission of JewishGen, the leading internet site for Jewish genealogy, evolving over just a few years, has broadened and solidified into one compelling central goal.

JewishGen projects and services all provide a unique opportunity to gather, document and preserve our research and make it available to the Jewish community worldwide as a public service through the JewishGen web site. (http://www.jewishgen.org)

This is the single element that sets JewishGen apart from all others. The goal is to ensure that Jewish lives, both past and present, woven into the fabric of social and cultural history, rise again from the ashes of the destroyed communities we will visit. To this end, JewishGen is determined as well as dedicated to do whatever it takes to ensure we are...

"preserving our history
for future generations"

 

  1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003*
JGFF — JewishGen Family Finder
Submitters 7,400 15,000 29,000 41,500 53,700 61,200 67,800
Entries 61,400 105,000 165,213 217,603 267,900 301,300 335,000
Searches  365,677  1,072,447  2,215,104  3,295,495  4,475,035  5,530,868  6,635,781
FTJP — Family Tree of the Jewish People
Submitters - 235 876 1,480 1,896 2,175 2,389
Names - 410,000 1,091,022 1,710,490 2,070,438 2,380,452 2,663,708
Email Contacts - 1,156 7,739 15,596 23,630 31,126 37,550
Searches - - 184,245 374,298 585,997 786,577 981,070
JHGR — JewishGen Holocaust Global Registry
Entries 464 1,403 1,951 2,139 2,485 2,723 2,817
Searches - 45,300 85,600 105,230 130,100 150,200 173,000
ShtetLinks
Localities Online 68 184 298 422 ** 228 238 264
Yizkor Book Project
Books Online 9 60 155 245 318 347 369
Translations 9 60 164 255 358 455 567
Database Titles 855 946 1,011 1,091 1,221 1,248 1,264
Library Call #s 1,136 2,580 4,768 7,335 9,574 10,232 10,237
Website Activity (YTD average)
Hits per month 512,000 1,570,000 2,410,315 3,024,784 3,983,334 5,089,805 4,500,743
Page views - 418,777 646,378 1,164,379 1,614,796 2,047,333 2,137,283
User Sessions / month 26,223 111,424 174,296 234,894 320,524 367,270 514,164
User Sessions / day 819 3,594 5,622 7,623 10,282 12,075 16,875
Average Length 10:49 18.42 17:51 16:00 16:45 15:33 10:23
# of HTML pages 1,500 3,500 6,500 9,817 18,701 17,140 19,941
Databases
Records - - - 4,445,178 5,804,109 6,442,000 7,886,103
Hits per month - - - 412,006 464,526 493,447 552,554
JewishGen Discussion Group
Subscribers 2,550 3,000 3,541 3,540 3,457 3,533 3,877
Number of posts 14,300 15,000 15,670 15,333 12,669 11,724 10,047
Daily Mail Volume - - - 65,000 50,988 45,519 35,351
Special Interest Group Mailing Lists
Lists 7 17 32 48 35 33 34
Subscribers 1,250 2,150 7,429 15,994 14,879 16,686 21,503
Number of posts 1,818 9,778 16,005 19,133 19,231 16,279 12,871
ShtetlSchleppers
Participants - - 44 120 196 229 295
Contributors
Financial 735 845 1,396 2,107 2,110 2,975 1,779

* Information updated as of 31 Dec 2003
** We now count only ShtetLinks sites hosted by JewishGen