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• 'Last Name Popularity' Widget on Family Dashboard

  11/26/2012 1:47:00 AM

  Ever wonder how popular your last name is? On your OneGreatFamily Dashboard it is easy to find out in a very short amount of time. 

  After you log in to OneGreatFamily, make sure that you are on the 'Family Dashboard' tab. Scroll down the page until you find the widget that says "Last Name Popularity in the U.S." Simply enter your last name in that box and click "Show Popularity". The results will show you how popular your last name was as of the 1990 United States Federal Census, and the ranking within the United States. It will also show the percentage of people in the United States that have the same last name as you.

  

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• Are You Related To A Passenger On The Mayflower?

  11/21/2012 1:48:00 AM

  Does your family tree include any of the 102 passengers who braved stormy seas in the Mayflower? Did your ancestors celebrate the first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1620? At OneGreatFamily.com, you can enter your family genealogy and see if it connects to any of the Mayflower passengers.

  You can view the list of the 102 passenger's Family Trees by visiting:

  http://www.onegreatfamily.com/general/famous_ancestors/mayflower-passengers.aspx

  To see if you are related to a certain passenger, click on the "Family Dashboard" tab once you have logged into OneGreatFamily. Find the "Relationship Calculator" and choose "How is this person" [select yourself] related to this person [select Seach by Name and enter the name of the passenger you're looking for]. Our database will process through hundreds of millions of names and outline the relationship (if it exists).

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• 'First Names and Surname' Widget On Family Dashboard

  10/22/2012 12:00:00 AM

  Family Dashboard at OneGreatFamily has many interesting widgets that give you interesting information about your family tree. This week we are featuring two closely related widgets that will give you a whole new perspective on your family tree.

  

  Sample First Names from Your Family Tree: This widget will list 3 random first names from your family tree along with the number of your ancestors with that first name. By clicking on the "More" link you can see a list of all the first names of all your ancestors (see the image below).

  The list can be sorted by popularity or alphabetically. By clicking on a specific name you can see all your ancestors that share that name.

   

  

  
  

  

  Sample Surnames from Your Family Tree: This widget on the Family Dashboard page will list 3 random surnames from your family tree along with the number of your ancestors with that surname. By clicking on the "More" link you can see a list of all the surnames of all your ancestors.
   

  The list can be sorted by popularity or alphabetically. By clicking on a specific surname you can see all your ancestors that share that last name.

  

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