Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Maternal Ancestors

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Review your Pedigree Chart (either on paper or in your genealogy management software program) and determine the age at death of your female ancestors back at least five generations (and more if you want to).

2)  Tell us the lifespan years for each of these ancestors.  Which of your female ancestors in this group lived the longest?  Which lived the shortest?  

3)  Share your results in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.

Here are my results of this challenge:  

Mother

Elizabeth Mary Connery         1917 – 1977  60

Grandmothers

Alice Fleming Connery           1872 – 1962   90

Henrietta Burbach Hansen    1888 – 1960   72

Great-Grandmothers

Mary Leahy Connery              1827  - 1896    69

Mary Hennessy Fleming       

Eva Schmitz Burbach              1859 – 1932    93

Dorette Cristensen Hansen   1857 – 1887    30

2^nd Great-Grandmothers

Elisabeth Kronenberger       1832  1872         40

Catharina Caspari                  1825 – 1913      88

Karen Dorthea Chrisensen   1833

Anna Toth Caspari

Ellen Mc Carthy Leahy           1807

Catherina Schaf  Burbach      1798 – 1834     36

Johanne Sophie Johanesdatter   1829 – after 1901   72+

Mary O’Donnell  Hennessy     1790  - abt 1833

3^rd Great grandmothers

Anne Margarete Olsdatter     1808 - ?

Mari Pedersdatter

Catherine Gros Burbach     1763 – 1800      37

Anna Catherine Braun Schaf

Based on the current lack of death dates I cannot give the average life spans for each generation, but based on the current information in my file my great-grandmother Dorette Cristensdatter Hansen had the shortest live span, dying at the age of 30, having given birth to 7 chldren over a 10 year period.