From adc6633bfd0de401ea73b5829291aa913ded810c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mortdecai Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 02:27:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: use real counts from database (1,296 persons, 2,195 relationships, 1,016 citations) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 673c169..ed4db7a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Simon -**Simon** is the Freiberg family's AI historian — a conversational interface to a genealogical database of over 1,200 people spanning three centuries, from 18th-century Palatinate Germany to present-day America. +**Simon** is the Freiberg family's AI historian — a conversational interface to a genealogical database of 1,296 people spanning three centuries, from 18th-century Palatinate Germany to present-day America. He's named after **Simon Freiberg I** (1782–1864), the patriarch who was born Sedrel Moses in Steinbach am Donnersberg and adopted the surname Freiberg during the Napoleonic decrees. Ask Simon who he is, and he'll tell you about the man, not the chatbot. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The Freibergs arrived in Cincinnati in the 1840s from the Palatinate region of w - **Stella Freiberg** was a founding leader of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and a pillar of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. - **David Shire**, connected through the Scheuer/Shire branch, won an Academy Award for the song *"It Goes Like It Goes"* from the film *Norma Rae*. -The tree today includes over 1,200 people across more than a dozen interconnected families. +The tree today includes 1,296 people, 2,195 relationships, 222 sources, and 1,016 citations across more than a dozen interconnected families. ## Origins