On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:33 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
We can establish a lower bound since the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over 1,335,000 biographies.
The 2007 edition of the ODNB (British biographical history) has "50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives". What criteria are used for the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center? We don't have an article on that, though we do have this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography_and_Genealogy_Master_Index
"The Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) was a printed reference index, and is currently a proprietary database published by the Gale Research Company. The database indexes more than 15 million individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700 biographical reference sources."
It that something different?
http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint...
Carcharoth