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Catalogue · 08 Sep 2026
The collection, at a glance

Statistics from the
public historical catalogue.

Counts are drawn from the maintained catalogue snapshot. They describe records and documented associations, not a proved single family tree.

4,564Historical people
4,758Mapped records
1,253Mapped places
153Exported family roots
2,551People linked to a root
261Cross-region life courses
62Creation-ready profiles
6Linked pre-1500 Space pages
656People with original evidence
Patterns in the collection

Places, names, branches and movement

Each panel remains linked back to the relevant catalogue or place view.

People by region

A person is counted once in every mapped region where a record places them.

  1. United States2,010
  2. Scotland1,181
  3. Ireland813
  4. Unspecified153
  5. New Zealand138
  6. Australia93
  7. England78
  8. Canada69
  9. Caribbean13
  10. India8
  11. France4
  12. Portugal2

Most frequent given names

First recorded given name across the public historical catalogue.

  1. John292
  2. Mary265
  3. James236
  4. William228
  5. Margaret217
  6. Robert170
  7. Elizabeth126
  8. Sarah99
  9. Thomas89
  10. Samuel79
  11. Jane70
  12. George64

Surnames joined by marriage to Glasgow

Glasgow-at-birth people by their spouses' recorded birth surnames, including Glasgow; recognised spelling variants are grouped. Shared surnames do not by themselves prove cousinship.

  1. Glasgow42
  2. Smith24
  3. Henry15
  4. Anderson12
  5. Campbell11
  6. Mitchell11
  7. Black10
  8. Cunningham10
  9. Patton10
  10. Bell9
  11. Wilson9
  12. Ferguson8
  13. Hamilton8
  14. Johnson8
  15. Scott8
  16. Stewart8
  17. Clark7
  18. Finley7
  19. Robertson7
  20. Williams7
  21. Brown6
  22. Graham6
  23. Harrison6
  24. McCracken6

Largest exported family branches

Primary earliest-ancestor groups from exported WikiTree parent links.

  1. John GlasgowGlasgow-10951,136
  2. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-3970152
  3. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-136796
  4. David GlasgowGlasgow-165476
  5. William GlasgowGlasgow-59173
  6. James Glasgow junGlasgow-170147
  7. John GlasgowGlasgow-165740
  8. John GlasgowGlasgow-82238
  9. John GlasgowGlasgow-253934
  10. Thomas M GlasgowGlasgow-376627
  11. John GlasgowGlasgow-314025
  12. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-153821

Most frequent mapped places

Unique catalogued people associated with each townland or locality.

  1. Glasgow148
  2. Killycurragh townland — Oritor/Derryloran131
  3. Lanarkshire — exact locality unproved131
  4. Location not supplied — profile holding point126
  5. County Antrim — exact locality unproved100
  6. Pennsylvania, United States80
  7. Kirknewton — West Lothian78
  8. Edinburgh77
  9. Kildress civil parish77
  10. Adams, Ohio, United States73
  11. New Zealand73
  12. Midlothian — exact locality unproved62

Birth centuries

People with a usable birth year; estimates remain estimates.

  1. 13th century3
  2. 15th century2
  3. 16th century73
  4. 17th century324
  5. 18th century739
  6. 19th century2,613
  7. 20th century679
  8. 21st century4

Most common recorded migrations

Different broad birth and death regions on the same profile.

  1. Ireland → United States99
  2. Scotland → United States22
  3. Ireland → Canada16
  4. Ireland → New Zealand15
  5. Ireland → Australia15
  6. Scotland → Ireland13
  7. England → New Zealand9
  8. Ireland → Scotland7
  9. Scotland → England6
  10. Ireland → England6
  11. Scotland → New Zealand5
  12. England → Australia5

Profile work is consolidation-first: 65 documentary identities lack a confirmed WikiTree destination, comprising 62 creation-ready after duplicate review, 0 on HOLD with possible existing-profile matches, 0 on HOLD because the records do not yet define a safely distinct person, 3 pre-1500 subjects still lacking an individual Space page, and 0 awaiting identity review. 6 pre-1500 subjects are already linked to their canonical individual Space pages and are excluded from that work queue. A record fact is not by itself a person to create. Family branches follow exported WikiTree parent links and organise research; they do not independently prove descent. Location totals count mapped associations, so one person may appear in several places or regions.

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