[Rockhounds] OT: Does anyone know a rockhound named Kreigh around Oakdale...

Sun Mar 8 20:37:10 PDT 2009

That's great, Carol! ... Oops, I see that Carol just sent this to me, but  
even if it is all still off-topic (well, sort of), I don't think you will mind  
if I share this with the whole list, I hope. ...

So, as you report below,  if there really are just 436 Kreighs in the  U.S. 
(that's 435 additional ones, besides the one we already know), and if my  
estimate of 100,000 rockhounds is still good, so that 1/3000 of the U.S.  
population is a rockhound, then there are an estimated 436/3000 = 0.145 Kreighs  who 
are rockhounds in the U.S.  That, I'm afraid, is less than one whole  Kreigh, so 
not only should we stop looking for any more of them, but I fear, we  have 
proved that you probably do not really exist, Kreigh, and if you do, you  are 
just an anomaly.  But, we already knew that!

Pete

In a message dated 3/8/2009 9:04:48 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
bova at mindspring.com writes:

Hi Pete,  
I was curious about  how many Kreighs there are too, and tripped over this 
site and  info:

One in every 702,203 Americans are named as KREIGH and  popularity of name 
KREIGH is 1.42 people per million. 
If we compare the popularity statistics of KREIGH to USA's population  
statistics, we can estimate that as of March.06.2009 there  are 436 people named as 
KREIGH in the United States and the number  of KREIGH's are increasing by 4 
people  every year. 
<_http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_16845_kreigh.htm_ 
(http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_16845_kreigh.htm) > 

So it  looks like you might have overestimated the number of Kreighs. *s*   
And  from a quick look on Facebook, quite a few are in their 20's or younger!   
Carol 

On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:23 PM, _pmodreski at aol.com_ (mailto:pmodreski at aol.com)  
wrote:

Hi folks,

Allow me to try to apply some scientific analysis to  the question  of "How 
many rockhounds are there likely to be, with  Kreigh's first  name?".

A website that is very  interesting/amusing to browse is "Baby Name Wizard",  
which depicts  nicely programmed graphs showing the frequency of girl's and 
boy's  names in the U.S., broken down into every decade since the  1880s.
__http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager__ 
(http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager_)   
(_http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager_ 
(http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager) )  

So my first step was to see if Kreigh's name appears on their list,  which  
gives the 1000 most common names.  It does not; but  even from this we can  
estimate an upper limit to the frequency of  "Kreighs" in the U.S.  Some of  
the 
boys' names that rank near  the bottom of the most frequent 1000 list, are  
shown 
to occur with  an average frequency of approximately 50 names per 1 million  
people in the U.S.  So, let's assume that an upper limit for  the number of  
"Kreighs" in the U.S. would be 50 per 1 million, or,  for a U.S. population 
of  300 
million, 300 x 50 = less than 15,000  Kreighs.  (It could, of course, be  
MUCH 
less, if Kreigh were  a really really rare and unusal name.)

Next we want to know how many  rockhounds there are in the U.S.  Trying  to 
do 
some web  searching for this number, I really could not find it.  I'm  sure  
such an estimated number is know--for example, one could look at the  total  
membership of the AFMS affiliated clubs, and I'm sure that  number has been  
mentioned in print now and then in AFMS  newsletters or elsewhere, but if it  
appears 
anywhere on their  website, it is well buried and not findable by simple  
searching.  However, I did find one website that notes "there are over 900  
rockhound clubs in the U.S.".  So let's say for round  numbers, there are  
1000 
clubs, with 100 members each.  The  100 may be an overestimate, but  that 
will allow 
for all the  rockhounds (likely perhaps, an equal number or more)  who don't  
belong to a club.  So let's say for good round numbers, that  there are 1000 
x 
100 = 100,000 rockhounds in the U.S.

So,  if there are an estimated not more than 15,000 Kreighs in the U.S., and  
the probability of a U.S. resident being a rockhound is 100,000 /  
300,000,000 
=  1/3000, then there should be an estimated  15,000/3000 = 5 Kreighs in this 

country who are  rockhounds.

There you go, Kreigh, so, there are 5 of you, and since  one of them is  
already you, there are just 4 more (or less, of  course).  Shouldn't be that  
tough 
a job to find them!  No worse than 4 needles in a haystack?

cheers,
Pete  
(P.S., but really, we all know that there is only ONE Kreigh...  and surely  
of course, only one Kreigh Tomaszewski  (I didn't  look it up... wonder how  
close I got to spelling that right?).  (Ah, now I checked below--I got it  
right!)

In a  message dated 3/6/2009 7:25:19 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
_Kreigh at tomaszewski.net_ (mailto:Kreigh at tomaszewski.net)   writes:

I got an  unusual inquiry today via my  website...

I had a friend,  mentor, named Richard XXXXXXX.
He  had a friend named Kreigh,  who was a rockhound. This Kreigh  gave
him a oval geode with  fluid inside that was millions of years  old.
I was wondering  if you are that friend.
Richard, lived in  Oakdale, CA. as I  did. I believe the year was 1996
or 97.
The  spelling of your name is unique, as I hadn't heard of that
spelling  until I met Richard's friend for only a few minutes.
Please let me know  if you are or aren't Richard's friend.

It wasn't me.  I've never  lived in California. But it got me wondering. 
My name is  somewhat  unusual. AFMS says there are about 55,000 
rockhounds in the  United  States that are members of clubs. The 
membership of this List  approaches 1% of US rockhounds. Would it be 
possible to track down  the  rockhound who shares my unusual name?

If you belong to a  club in  California, would you please check your club 
roster and  see if there is a  Kreigh? Personal contact details should 
probably  be shared off-list if you  find the other  Kreigh.

Thanks!

Kreigh

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