Saturday, March 23, 2019

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Birth Order in Your Line

It's Saturday Night, 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!


For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:


1)  Pick one of your ancestral lines - any one - patrilineal, matrilineal, zigzag, from a famous ancestor, etc.  Pick a long one if you can.

2)  Tell us which position in the birth order that your ancestor was in each generation.  For example "third child, first son."  Also list how many children were born to these parents.  

3)  Share your Birth Order work with us on your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a comment on Facebook, etc.


Here's mine - I chose my patrilineal line:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-....) - first child, first son of Frederick and Betty (Carringer) Seaver (3 sons)
2.  Frederick W. Seaver (1911-1983) - fifth child, second son of Frederick W. and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (3 sons, 4 daughters)
3.  Frederick W. Seaver (1876-1942) - first child, first son of Frank W. and Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver (3 sons)
4.  Frank W. Seaver (1852-1922) - first child, first son of Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver (2 sons, 2 daughters)
5.  Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) - third child, first son of Benjamin and Abigail (Gates) Seaver (2 sons, 2 daughters)
6.  Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) - fourth child, second son of Benjamin and Martha (Whitney) Seaver (4 sons, 6 daughters)
7.  Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) - second child, first son of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver (8 sons, 5 daughters)
8.  Norman Seaver (1734-1787) - fourth child, third son of Robert and Eunice (Rayment) Seaver (7 sons, 2 daughters)
9.  Robert Seaver (1702-1752) - first child, first son of Joseph and Mary (Read) Seaver (2 sons, 4 daughters)
10.  Joseph Seaver (1672-1754) - second child, second son of Shubael and Hannah (Wilson) Seaver (3 sons, 3 daughters)
11.  Shubael Seaver (1640-1739) - first child, first son of Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver (4 sons, 3 daughters)

My averages are:


*  Child number = 2.3
*  Number of children:  6.5

One of the interesting facts about this particular line is that every one of the males in this line was the oldest son that had children (some older sons died, and some were single without children).



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7 comments:

Yvonne Demoskoff said...

Hi, Randy! Here's my blog article: https://yvonnesgenealogyblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-birth.html

Lisa S. Gorrell said...

I don't have as many generations. https://mam-massouthernfamily.blogspot.com/2019/03/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-birth.html

Lois Willis said...

Here's mine:
https://loiswillis.blog/2019/03/24/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-birth-order-in-your-line/

Janice M. Sellers said...

Here's what I was able to squeak out. As in Lisa's case, Randy has more generations than I.

Does birth order through the generations correlate to anything? <a href="http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2019/03/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-birth.html></a>

Linda Stufflebean said...

This was a fun topic. Here is mine: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2019/03/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-27/

Lacie Madison said...

Here is my post: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Nancy Ward Remling said...

I actually got a chance to finish one and publish it for a change!

https://remlinggenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/saturday-challenge-birth-orders.html