Interpreting Old Photographs: Estimating Ages--Family Trends


Figure 1.--Family trends are a very helpful clue in estimating the age of a child. The German children here look to be about 1-7 years of age. They look to be about 1, 3, 5 and 7 years old. They were from Pyritz.

Family trends are a very helpful clue in estimating the age of a child. Families were much larger in the 19th abd early 20th century than is the case today. Thus we commonly see families with three or more childrn. Often but not always they were very close in age. Here biology offers some clues. The gestation period is 9 months. Normally mom needed a little time to recover. So when you have large families. the age gap is often about 2 years. It can be more, but usually is not less.






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