It's highly unlikely for your wallet to generate 229,000 private keys if 99% of those aren't used or from multiple wallet files since the default gap limit since then is only 1000.
In 2009, there was no "gap limit", as that's related to HD wallets. There may not even have been a keypool yet (which was later introduced starting with 100 addresses by default, and later increased to 1000 addresses).
I did a private key import and it is showing a little over 229,000 or private keys. So I really don't know what to think, most of the private keys have a 0 balance.
"Most"? If that means some are funded, you found what you're looking for.
Interesting. I have 223517 private keys that I imported, which, seems excessive. These private keys were in HEX decimal format that were than converted to WIF format and thus bulk imported into Electrum. Electrum is taking its good ol time synchorizing these private keys. In this process, is has recorded 2421 transactions the first ones occuring in 2011. So 223517 private keys and each one has a unique address. It finally verified an address with transactions, though, the balance is 0.
If view details of the address, I can view the private key in its correct format. I guess my question I wonder is, if these, weren't my addresses or private keys, how would I end up with them on my hard drive? Is it possible when downloading Bitcoin Core and the ledger that the scan program had gathered some of this information of other people's addresses?