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As genealogist, we tend to know more than our relatives. An Ancestry’s new survey found there’s a ‘knowledge gap’ in many American families.
More than half of Americans don’t know the names of all four of their grandparents. That’s what a new survey from Ancestry found; it gathered responses from 2,113 Americans. OnePoll conducted the survey on behalf of the genealogy company in March, and it determined that 53% of Americans can’t name all of their grandparents. "When you look at the survey findings broken down by age, it was still fairly high across the board," a spokesperson for Ancestry wrote in an email to Fox News Digital.
"We found 53% between ages 26-41 couldn’t name all four, 61% between ages 42-57, and 30% of those ages 58-76." Ancestry’s survey also found that 66% of Americans say they want to learn more about their family history and 51% want to hear stories about what life was like when their ancestors were young. "Listening to family stories can be a great starting point to learn about your family’s past, but details can get lost as they are passed down for generations," Ancestry’s emailed statement goes on. The company’s commissioned survey was intentionally published to go along with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s release of the 1950 census, which became available for public viewing on Friday, April 1. About 151 million records are associated with the 1950 U.S. Census archive, the genealogy company reports.
