Lifespans, charts and timelines

During the month of April I experimented with a variety of methods to display family history data. Ideas come from video channels, blogs and Facebook groups. Recently the South Australian Genealogy Writer's group featured a session on charts to include in family histories. This chart displays lifespans across decades.

The idea was provided in this video Use AI to Create Stunning Timelines from your Ancestry Tree The instructions were very clear and easy to follow. I did check Gemini's output and needed to add some extra instructions to obtain the data I wanted. 

Chart showing family of John Horgan and Honora O'Leary

I added Honora's husband to the chart after copying the data from Google Gemini into a Google sheet. Then after using the clipping tool to save the data as an image, I decorated the image in Canva.

This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin

Origins and age at death

4 generation origins and longevity

The chart below shows where my ancestors were born and age at death. The 5th generation great- great grandparents will most likely have at least 30 of the 32 coloured green for Ireland but as their birth places have not yet been determined I have limited this chart to 4 generations. All of the great grandparents migrated to South Australia between 1840 and 1868 as children or young adults. All were married in South Australia and 7 of the 8 also died in South Australia. George Bennett is still an unsolved mystery.

Thanks to Jill and Alona for pointing out this activity.