The Tree of Me

I like to play with statistics. In a previous post Individual Arrivals in Australia I blogged about which previous generation arrived in Australia. This time I decided to look at States of arrival, the arrival numbers in each branch of our families and then whether the arrivals were single, couples or family group arrivals. The results are interesting. There is no real surprise here. My husband's families for generations come from an area about 1.5 hours from north to south mid way between Sydney and Brisbane. Most of them had land and were well settled. However, my families have tended to move around quite a lot and their State of Arrival patterns are more widespread.  The graph below show the number of individual arrivals in both my husbands and my families. This prompted me to look further at the type of arrivals. Did they arrive as single individuals, couples or as family groups? My father's branch is the only branch of our families that arrive...

Today I came across a nine generation chart I had made a few years ago. Many people were highlighted and it took me a minute or two to work out what it meant. I had highlighted the names of those direct ancestors who had arrived in Australia. I decided to graph the information and this is what it revealed for my family. Here are the results for my husband's family.                           My family  42 direct arrivals in Australia 7 family group arrivals Arrivals between 1822 and 1883 2 single arrivals still to locate My husband's family 21 direct arrivals in Australia 3 family group arrivals Arrivals between c 1831 and 1885 1 family arrival to locate The downside of this is that my daughter wishes one of her grandparents had arrived from Great Britain and then she could get an ancestry visa. We are 2 generations to early for this to happen. What do your arrivals look ...

This weeks challenge from Randy at Genea-Musings . It's   Saturday Night again   -- and time for more   Genealogy Fun!!!     Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: 1)  Use the Population Counter on the   BBC News website   to determine your place in the current world population, and your place in all of history (of course, these are estimates...see the website for how they calculated this).  Enter your birth date into the fields and click on "Go." 2)  Tell us about your results in your own blog post, as a Comment on this blog post, or as a status line in Facebook or a Stream post on Google Plus.  For extra credit, show us the image from the website with your information on it. I entered my date and discovered this. Currently Australia's estimated population is 22 398 014. Every hour there are 33 births, 16 deaths and 26 immigrants arrive. An annual growth of 1.7%. The site also told me that I would bel...

I started my blog in January this year answering the Australia Day Challenge. Today I decided to look at my stats to see what I could discover. Some people have contacted me directly about my posts. One of these came within hours of posting for the Anzac Day Challenge. I was contacted by someone in the RAAF regarding my post about Allan Seabrook Mitchell which was very exciting. I have also been contacted by William Vaughan author of Murder Trials in Ireland, one of the books I have reviewed . He has sent me some information about my Agnew family. I already had this information partially transcribed so it has been very useful to compare the two transcriptions and fill in a few of the gaps I had when I had extreme difficulty reading the document dated 1834. My pages views have come from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Malaysia, Iran and Russia. Should I be concerned about any of these? I'm disappointed the person who ...