{"id":1556,"date":"2015-06-29T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2015-06-29T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:26:27","slug":"vital-information-stats-that-will-change-your-ancestral-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/29\/vital-information-stats-that-will-change-your-ancestral-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Information Stats that will Change your Ancestral Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jensen, \u201cBicentennial Perspectives on Birth, Marriage, and Death\u2026\u201d <strong><em>National Genealogical Society<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Quarterly<\/em><\/strong> 65 (March 1977): 16-24. Jensen was director, Family and Community History Center, Newberry Library, Chicago IL. Have you considered these ancestral facts of life?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Newborn children&#8211;25-30% died within first 12 months; abt 50% survived until age 20.<br \/>\n__Life expectancy\u2014up to age 45 years in the Chesapeake Bay area.<br \/>\n__One half of all marriages were broken by death before the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary and before the oldest child was grown. Average marriage lasted 7 years before one partner died. Long-term relationships were not expected. Widows and widowers re-married quickly.<br \/>\n__Most children grew up as orphans or as step-children with half siblings.<br \/>\n__Wills and testaments are not instruments of old age\u2014they were tools to protect widows and children from destitution.<br \/>\n__Only one in five baby girls lived a normal life span: childhood, adolescence, marriage, children, living with husband at age 55 when the last child left home.<\/p>\n<p>Such high mortality required many children to be born or a high immigration rate to replace loss. Women had 8-10 children in a short time. They married younger\u2014about 20 years of age. If a woman came to America as an indentured servant, she had to work her time. So she married later. This was common in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century South.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;you can expect your family charts to reflect these stats&#8211;short marriage spans and remarriages, lots of children born in a short span of time.\u00a0 If these charts don&#8217;t fit&#8211;re-examine your evidence! Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arleneeakle.com\"> http:\/\/arleneeakle.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS An unusual family chart would be one with only 2 children and showing the parents lived to be over 50.\u00a0 Be sure you re-check your evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jensen, \u201cBicentennial Perspectives on Birth, Marriage, and Death\u2026\u201d National Genealogical Society Quarterly 65 (March 1977): 16-24. Jensen was director, Family and Community History Center, Newberry Library, Chicago IL. Have you considered these ancestral facts of life? \u2014Newborn children&#8211;25-30% died &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/29\/vital-information-stats-that-will-change-your-ancestral-quest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}