A Possible Genealogical Metric In Search Of Meaning

[mongers]

Tinkering around with some family birth dates, prompted this 'idea', take the combined ages your parents lived for and compare it to the combined ages you and your siblings have lived so far. 

What might this tell you if you compared the different generations in you family or across social classes or between different modern countries.

Might this proto-genealogical metric be of any use to anyone?


Incidentally my siblings and I, three living and one dead, are due* to overtake our parents, one living one deceased, on the 27th May 2017. 



* fingers crossed for all of us.

[crazy canuck]

I dont know.  My paternal Grandfather lived to 96.  I will be very lucky to make it that far for reasons entirely independant of our relative socio economic status.

[CountDeMoney]

I dont know.  My paternal Grandfather lived to 96.  I will be very lucky to make it that far for reasons entirely independant of our relative socio economic status.

Both my Dad's father and grandfather died at 65.  At 69, the way he sees it, he's in stoppage time. 

[sbr]

Mom's dad died pretty young.  I don't remember the dates off the top of my head, but he was dead before my parents married in the mid to late '60s.  My dad's dad passed at ~70, just after his 50th wedding anniversary.  Both grandmas made it to 90+.

My parents both turned 70 this year and seem to be in very good health.

I am 44 and my brother is 40.

[KRonn]

It's been a real mix with my family. Two grandmothers lived into their 70s and 80s, grandfathers died a lot younger and I never knew them. My father lived to 80, some of his brothers and sisters lived a lot longer, some into their 90s. On my mother's side most didn't make it into their 80s very much. Man, maybe I need to retire even sooner than I thought!

[derspiess]

Going back several generations, my ancestors lived fairly long lives.  All my grandparents made it well into their 80s and my dad's mom lived to 91 (dad's dad had the most unhealthy eating habits & was overweight his entire adult life but lived to 83).  Going back a few generations before that, most people seemed to live to 70-90.

[Syt]

My Mom's 73. My Dad died age 56. So 129. Or 147 if he was still alive.

I have three sisters, aged 53, 51, and 45, with me being 38. Totalling 187.

[KRonn]

I want to make it to age 100 because very few people die over the age of 100...

[Eddie Teach]

This metric is essentially meaningless. Families with 2 kids don't have significantly different life spans than families with 5 kids.

[crazy canuck]

I want to make it to age 100 because very few people die over the age of 100...

[sbr]

I want to make it to age 100 because very few people die over the age of 100...

  That was George Burns wasn't it?

[Maximus]

My parents ages add up to 158 I think. Mt siblings' and my ages add up to somewhere around 450. I can't be arsed to calculate everyone's ages exactly.

[mongers]

Good to see grumbler in full stalker mode over in the other thread, glad I've given him something to look forward to in his dotage. 

[Eddie Teach]

It's not stalking when you're always at the same (public) place.

[Admiral Yi]

I might be inclined to call it sniping or taking a potshot rather than stalking.