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US Black Heritage Project Stats

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This page tracks the progress of the US Black Heritage Project.

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Total Profiles

"Total" includes profiles with either the African-American sticker, in the African-American Notables category, or with the USBH Notables Platinum Profiles template. Detailed stats for previous years can be found on US Black Heritage Project Stats Archive page.

Date of DataTotalTotal
Connected		Total %
Connected		Total Profiles
Created in 2024
19 May 2024351,707162,01046.06%78,791
12 May 2024348,722160,98846.17%75,857
5 May 2024344,629160,07546.45%71,865
28 Apr 2024340,434158,60846.59%67,887
21 Apr 2024337,291157,70646.76%64,822
14 Apr 2024333,024157,19847.2%60,699
7 Apr 2024327,077155,08747.42%55,176
31 Mar 2024322,976153,67647.58%51,429
24 Mar 2024318,866152,76747.91%47,496
17 Mar 2024314,070151,63148.28%43,086
10 Mar 2024309,303150,50048.66%38,474
3 Mar 2024303,789148,52348.89%33,319
25 Feb 2024298,680146,97049.21%28,393
18 Feb 2024292,906145,37149.63%22,769
11 Feb 2024286,711143,97650.22%16,821
4 Feb 2024282,059142,56750.55%12,384
28 Jan 2024279,596141,60350.65%10,142
21 Jan 2024276,101139,97750.7%6,905
14 Jan 2024272,189137,65150.57%3,241
7 Jan 2024270,226136,89350.66%1,524
31 Dec 2023268,195135,91650.68%94,250 [2023]

Total Number of Profiles Created Each Year
Data from 31 Dec 2023

Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Profiles 94,250 77,320 60,180 11,262 6,004 7,080 3,234 1,779 2,592 1,902 472 972 712 308 113 15

Additional Stats for Total Profiles/Connection

This spreadsheet contains additional stats related to the total number of profiles for the US Black Heritage Project and connection rates. Included are:

  • Additional detail about profiles by profile creation year.
  • Profile counts and connection rates for notables and several Heritage Exchange categories (slaves, Free People of Color, and status unknown)
  • Profile count and connection rate by US state, which includes profiles with the state in the birth/marriage/death fields as well as profiles in any subcategories of the state category. This means profiles may be counted for more than one state if they lived in multiple states throughout their lives.
  • Total profiles by birth location, including locations outside of the US. This should only count each profile once.

US Black Heritage's Connecting Challenge

See the Connecting Challenge Spreadsheet for historical and current stats.

US Black Heritage Cemetery Project

This is a monthly progress report of the African-American cemetery categories that have been created, which includes the number of profiles created, and the number of memorials that have been added to the cemetery as recorded in Find A Grave.

Cemetery Monthly Progress

Progress of all states

All States
Date#States#Ctys (3143)#Cats#Profiles#Memorials%Complete% Cty Complete
Previous Year337612,28727,7961,677,8621.66%24.21%
1/31/2024337722,37729,3881,754,3791.68%24.56%
2/29/2024338412,54930,6971,797,0631.71%26.76%
3/31/2024348632,67233,8351,847,7941.83%27.46%
Mthly Chg1221233,13850,731
Qtrly Chg11023856,039169,932
YTD Chg11023856,039169,932
100% complete178

Cemetery Highlights

The US Black Heritage Cemetery Team has been productive during the 1st quarter of 2024.

  1. Added 102 new counties for a total of 863(27.46% of total US counties) ,
  2. Added 385 cemeteries were added for a total of 2,672.
  3. Added 6,039 profiles for a total of 33,835.
  4. 178 cemeteries are 100% complete. Up 10 from last month.

South Carolina and Mississippi have identified at least one African-American cemetery in all of their counties for %100 county identification.

Top 5 states close to all counties identified:

StatePercent
Florida86.57%
North Carolina69.00%
Virginia58.96%
Alabama56.72%
Maryland56.52%

State Team Cemetery Stats

Progress of the state teams as of Mar 31, 2024

3/31/2024African-American Cemeteries
State# Ctys# Cats# Profiles# Graves% Profiles Complete# Cats 100% Complete% Ctys
Alabama38145106984,8911.26%856.72%
Florida581722887102,9542.80%1886.57%
Georgia802242,760180,3651.53%2250.31%
Kentucky4276127651,7472.47%1235.00%
Louisiana31100149054,1872.75%348.44%
Maryland13512,35342,9215.48%356.52%
Mississippi821501,47831,0804.76%15100.00%
New Jersey916541,4623.69%39.00%
North Carolina693032842236,9521.20%969.00%
Ohio274984033,2352.53%330.68%
South_Carolina462491,71577,3182.22%21100.00%
Tennessee337180168,6331.17%534.74%
Texas1105337,226401,3381.80%2243.31%
Virginia792172,348147,7871.59%1258.96%
Totals7172,35629,1391,514,8701.92%15622.81%
Chg16742,85516,312

See Project Stats table for details.

Project Focus Profiles

With a goal toward connecting all USBH profiles, we have chosen three focus profiles. We will grow the cc7 for these three connected notables as large as we possibly can to enfold more families into their web of connection.

Date of DataNotablecc7 as of 31 Dec 2023 cc7 as of 5 May 2024 Progress
31 Dec 2023Ernie Banks 2575 2635+60
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr746 772+26
Medgar Evers346 349+3

Notables

This table contains data for profiles in the African-American Notables category.

The statistics for "not unlinked" means profiles that have at least one family member attached - these are profiles that the project has begun actively working to connect. We have a number of young living notables where we don't have enough publicly available information to begin adding family profiles according to WikiTree's privacy guidelines and a number of very basic profiles that have been created to get them into the workflow for our notables team, but we haven't started adding family yet.

Date of DataNotablesNotables
Connected		Notables
% Connected		Notables
not unlinked		Notables
not unlinked
% connected		Platinum Profiles


28 Apr 20244,2591,71840.34%3,39850.56%95
31 Mar 20244,2011,69440.32%3,33250.84%92
25 Feb 20244,1391,64939.84%3,28350.23%83
28 Jan 20244,0651,60939.58%3,22349.92%80
31 Dec 20233,9091,53939.37%3,11649.39%80

Plantations

Please see this table for stats broken down by each state.

MonthPlantationsPlantations CompletePlantations Need ProfilesPlantations Under Construction
Nov Dec 2333619610436
Sept 202333219610036
Aug 202333319610037
July 202332918910337
June 202332718810237
May 20233251899442
Apr 20233111898042
Feb 20232861787137
Jan 20232671726629
YR End 222441506727
Dec 20222291396525
Nov 20222201207030
Oct 2022208928136
Sept 2022201897735
Aug 2022189807535
Jul 2022181657937
June 2022171607932

USBH Heritage Exchange

See the Heritage Exchange Statistics spreadsheet for a full break down of the statistics by state for enslaved ancestors, slave owners, and free people of color.

Profile Improvement

See this spreadsheet for stats related to profile improvement including the number of profiles in our maintenance categories and the number of Data Doctor suggestions.

See US Black Heritage Project Stats Archive for all past statistics.

USBH Project Resource Pages





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Neff-1845 Rob Neff
It would be interesting to see how many have served in the USCT { { US Civil War template } }. Probably not a large number, but I've put in a couple myself.
posted by Rob Neff
edited by Rob Neff
McBeth-165 Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
If you use the category navigation tool, it tells you how many profiles are in a category. Currently, there are 309 profiles categorized under USCT.
posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
W Robertson
That is a good idea and I can add this to the statistics -- but I am not positive what search you used. I did a search using the template + sticker but I have different results. I am not positive what the category is to search on
posted by W Robertson
McBeth-165 Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM
If you go to this category: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:United_States_Colored_Troops%2C_United_States_Civil_War then click on the "navigate" link on the top right of the screen. Currently, on the first line under profiles it says 13+297 (13 are how many are in this top level category and 297 in all the subcategories combined)
posted by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

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