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Life expectancy website?
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Right said Fred | Report | 18 Apr 2006 19:41 |
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Does anyone know if there is a website that tells you what the average life expectancy was in a certain year? I have searched both the boards and googled but to no avail, anyone know? |
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Heather | Report | 18 Apr 2006 19:44 |
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There must be one - but I think a very handy facility is on ancestry. If you go to the learning centre you can look up the average life span of people with your surname over a period of time. |
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Merry | Report | 18 Apr 2006 19:46 |
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I can't help you with a website, but I did read somewhere that if you take child mortality out of the calculations (that is children aged 12 and under) then the sorts of figures you read in the press about how our ancestors (Victorian) couldn't expect to live past 45 (or similar) are completely altered! All the medical advances in the last few decades have only increased the average life expenctancy for those who reach adulthood by about ......now I can't remember for sure.....but I think it was about 5-7 years. Explains who I seem to have just as many 80 and 90+ year olds in my tree than one might expect to come across today! Merry |
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Phoenix | Report | 18 Apr 2006 19:50 |
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You probably want earlier details, but this shows trends in the C20th. http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 18 Apr 2006 19:59 |
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I have been amazed at how OLD many of my ancestors were when they died, from the 1700s onwards. Many in their 70s, lots in their 80s and quite a few in their 90s.Most of them humble ag labs, certainly all hard manual workers. As Merry says, if you take child mortality out of the averages,and the women who died in childbirth, then you get a very different figure indeed - if two children died for each of my 90 year olds, then you get an average of 30 years....just goes to show that you cannot learn the truth from Statistics. Olde Crone |
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Phoenix | Report | 18 Apr 2006 20:03 |
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These are all the statistics extracted from the 1871 census: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/report_page.jsp?rpt_id=EW1871GEN&show=ALL |
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Heather | Report | 18 Apr 2006 20:11 |
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The ancestry graphs are quite interesting - bit concerned that my Cheals are all knocking well into their 80s until the last 20 years or so though!! |
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Merry | Report | 18 Apr 2006 20:16 |
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Heather, where is the learning centre on Ancestry?? Please!! Merry |
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