My Family Tree in Numbers
I was inspired by a recent post by
that included many different types of visual representation of family trees and pedigree charts. This is a truly inspirational blog and shows you multiple ways in which you can visually represent your family tree. This made me think about a blog that I wrote many moons ago, back in 2021, which is a bit of a spin on the visual representation idea. What I did was some number crunching. A lot of our family trees are based on numbers, we are obsessed with them, birth dates, marriage dates, death dates and census returns. Thanks to the wonders of technology, we can now crunch these numbers from our family tree software programmes. With a little bit of help from family tree maker and the website MyHeritage I ran the numbers on my own family tree. Some of the results are a little skewed and maybe a little out of date, but it was an interesting and worthwhile exercise. So whether you're a graphics person, or a numbers geek like myself, there are plenty of options with how you can represent your many years of research.Have a go yourself and crunch those numbers!
Oddly, a friend and I were just having a similar conversation earlier this week on the value of identifying generational patterns, and your study falls right into that idea. There’s a lot to dig into there.
The marriage age is especially curious and begs the question of first vs subsequent marriages. I know I have a lot of that going on in my tree, especially due to maternal death in childbirth back in the day.
You’ve definitely inspired me to go a bit deeper into the numbers in my trees. Thanks for that and sharing this study!
It's interesting to look at our research from all sorts of perspectives and angles. Thanks for sharing this one. Thanks also for the mention.