Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Female Ancestors Age at Death

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Review your Pedigree Chart (either on paper or in your genealogy management software program) and determine the age at death of your female ancestors back at least five generations (and more if you want to).

2)  Tell us the lifespan years for each of these ancestors.  Which of your female ancestors in this group lived the longest?  Which lived the shortest?  

3)  Share your results in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine (I'm going to use ahnentafel numbers here):

Mother:
3.  Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) - 82 years

Grandmothers:
5.  Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962) - 80 years
7.  Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977) - 78 years.

Great-Grandmothers:
9.  Hattie Louisa (Hildreth) Seaver (1857-1920) - 63 years
11. Julia E. (White) Richmond (1848-1913) - 65 years
13.  Abbey Ardella (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944) - 82 years
15.  Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952) - 84 years

2nd Great-Grandmothers:
17.  Lucretia Townsend (Smith) Seaver (1828-1884) - 56 years
19.  Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834-1923) - 89 years
21.  Hannah (Rich) Richmond (1824-1911) - 85 years
23.  Amy Frances (Oatley) White (1826-1864) - 38 years
25.  Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1831-1901) - 70 years
27.  Abigail A. (Vaux) Smith (1844-1931) - 87 years
29.  Sarah G. (Knapp) Auble (1818-after 1900) - over 82 years
31.  Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp (1840-1874) - 34 years

3rd Great-Grandmothers:
33.  Abigail (Gates) (Seaver) Seaver (1797-1870) - 73 years
35.  Elizabeth Horton (Dill) Smith (1791-1869) - 78 years
37.  Hannah (Sawtell) Hildreth (1789-1857) - 68 years
39.  Sophia (Buck) (Brigham) (Newton) Stone (1797-1882) - 85 years
41..  Ann (Marshman) Richman (1784-1856) - 72 years
43.  Rebecca (Hill) Rich (1790-1862) - 72 years
45.  Miranda (Wade) White (1804-1850) - 46 years
47.  Amy (Champlin) Oatley (1798-1865) - 67 years
49.  Sarah (Feather) Carringer (1804-1848) - 44 years
51.  Elizabeth (King) Spangler (1796-1863) - 67 years
53.  Mary (Bell) Smith (1805-1865) - 60 years
55.  Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux (1815-1883) - 68 years
57.  Anna (Row) Auble (1787-1863) - 76 years
59.  Sarah (Cutter) Knapp (1785-1878) - 93 years
61.  Sarah Sephrona (Fletcher) Kemp (1802-before 1861) - less than 59 years
63.  Elizabeth (Putman) Sovereen (1818-1895) - 78 years

So in those five generations, the longest lived was probably Sarah (Cutter) Knapp, wife of William Knapp, of New Jersey, at 93 years.  The shortest lived was Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp, wife of Abraham James Kemp of Ontario, at 34 years.

The average for these 31 females is about 70 years.  The generation averages and age ranges are:

*  Generation 1 (mother) - 82 years
*  Generation 2 (grandmothers) - 79 years (range 78 to 80)
*  Generation 3 (great-grandmothers) - 73 years (range 63 to 84)
*  Generation 4 (2nd great-grandmothers) - 68 years (range 34 to 89)
*  Generation 5 (3rd great-grandmothers) - 69 years (range 44 to 93)

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Surname Saturday -- SMITH (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1447, who is Eleanor SMITH (1652-1722) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations of this SMITH family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

90.  Simon Wade (1767-1857)
91.  Phebe Horton (1772-1820)

180.  Simon Wade (1731-1800)
181.  Deborah Tracy (1731-1800)

360.  Nathaniel Wade (1709-1754)
361.  Ruth Hawkins (1711-1789)

722.  William Hawkins (1679-1712)
723.  Elizabeth Arnold (1683-1758)

1446.  Eleazer Arnold, born 17 June 1651 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 29 August 1722 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 2892. Thomas Arnold and 2893. Phoebe Parkhurst.  He married about 1671 in probably Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
1447.  Eleanor Smith, born about 1652 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died about 1722 in probably Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  

Children of Eleazer Arnold and Eleanor Smith are:
*  Phebe Arnold (1672-1741), married 1696 Thomas Smith (1671-1741).
*  Eleazer Arnold (1674-1712), married 1700 Sarah Hawkins (1680-1759).
*  Joseph Arnold (1678-1746), married 1716 Mercy Stafford (1694-1779).
*  John Arnold (1682-1752), married 1733 Sarah LNU (????-1751).
*  Elizabeth Arnold (1684-1758), married (1) 1704 William Hawkins (1679-1712); (2) 1718 Israel Smith.
*  Eleanor Arnold (1690-1722).
*  Mary Arnold (1697-1753), married 1717 George Thomas (1694-1756).
*  Jeremiah Aenold (1700-1775), married 1721 Freelove LNU (1700-????).
*  Abigail Arnold (1700-1775), married 1720 John Mann (1694-1782).
*  Deborah Arnold (1702-????).

2894.  John Smith, born about 1623 in England; died after 16 March 1687 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  
2895.  Elizabeth LNU, born about 1625 in England; died 1706 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of John Smith and Elizabeth LNU are:
*  Leonard Smith (1647-1676).
*  Benjamin Smith (1650-1706).
*  Eleanor Smith (1652-1722), married 1671 Eleazer Arnold (1651-1722)
*  John Smith (1658-1676).
*  Mary Smith (1661718), married 1678 Thomas Hopkins (1650-1718).

5788.  John Smith (the Mason), born about 1600 in England; died before 09 March 1660 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  He married about 1620 in England.
5789.  FNU LNU, born about 1600 in England.

Children of John Smith and FNU LNU are:
*  Leonard Smith
*  Joseph Smith
*  John Smith (1623-1687), married 1647 Elizabeth LNU (1625-1706).
*  Elezur Smith (1644-????).

Information about this Smith family was obtained from:

*  John Osborne Austin, The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island; comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690, with many families carried to the fourth generation (Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969)

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Board for Certification of Genealogists and Legacy Family Tree Webinars Form Webinar Partnership

I received this press release from the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) today:

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Board for Certification of Genealogists and Legacy Family Tree Webinars Form Webinar Partnership

The Board for Certification of Genealogists and Legacy Family Tree Webinars are excited to announce a new partnership. Legacy, host of the webinar series at FamilyTreeWebinars.com, will now also serve as host, producer, and publisher for future BCG webinars. This arrangement will produce and promote high-quality education in genealogy standards and methodologies by one of the leading creators of genealogy webinars.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars is a leader in the field of webinar production and management. BCG is excited to bring this level of technical quality and experience to its webinar series, which offers educational opportunities on topics of certification, genealogy standards, and methodologies.

Held on the third Tuesday of the month when scheduled, BCG webinars are presented to educate and raise awareness of genealogy standards. Registration for live webinars will be available at http://bcgcertification.org/blog/bcg-webinars and at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com. Registration is free and is open to the public.

Recordings of BCG’s live webinars are available at both http://bcgcertification.org/blog/bcg-webinars and at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/bcg. Some are free for a limited time after the live event, while others are available with an annual or monthly membership to Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

“We are very excited about our new partnership with Legacy Family Tree Webinars, whose technical expertise in genealogy webinar production and management is second to none,” said BCG President Jeanne Larzalere Bloom. “This collaboration allows BCG to focus on its mission of promoting attainable, uniform standards of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners.”

Geoff Rasmussen, founder and host of the Legacy webinar series, said, “BCG and Legacy webinars is the perfect partnership––where high tech and high quality education meet. The entire genealogy industry will benefit.”

Legacy Family Tree Webinars (www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com) and Legacy Family Tree software (www.LegacyFamilyTree.com) are part of Millennia Corporation, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Surprise, Arizona.

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This is really good news for genealogists who want outstanding educational opportunities.  I note that there are two BCG related webinars on the Family Tree Webinars schedule for Saturday, 30 July:

*  John Philip Colletta on "The Germanic French - Researching Alsatian and Lorrainian Families" at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) - Register for the live webinar at  http://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=359.

*  Thomas W. Jones on "Solutions for Scarce and Missing Records" at 4:15 p.m. (EDT) and 1:15 p.m. (PDT) - Register for the live webinar at http://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=382

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