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Everything you may not have wanted to know about the Messervys

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Some Messervy Statistics My genealogy software, MAC Family Tree, has a lot of bells and whistles including the capacity to produce statistical reports from the data in a particular tree. Of course, as with any software it is only as good as the data that is input. As my website data is a work in progress, there are some empty spots in the data. Thus,for those of you who are excited by statistics and patterns in data, what follows are some select charts. Enjoy or not..... Colours are traditional pink for women and blue for men (default). Some observations based on my familiarity with the Messervy content: ·        The spike for children 0 – 4 years of age likely reflects that most information is from times past when infants and toddlers were subject to a range of challenges to survival. In particular, the Messervys in Jersey go back to 1400s and earlier when families endured the deaths of many of their children.    ·        Another sp