Boy or girl? It’s in the father's genes (General)

by Jean Herbert , Leeds Yorkshire, Friday, December 12, 2008, 07:17 (5897 days ago) @ slowhands

I found the information regarding "Father's Genes" in this discussion rather interesting and can empathise with ChrisW's point, it does not always work out that way. So, out of curiosity I briefly used the information given and found to my surprise it was fairly accurate (in some branches of my tree, not all) .

I then applied the same "Father's Genes" theory to occupations. The professional worker's children continued as professional worker, in nearly every census. It could also be said that professional people could afford to educate their children better than the manual workers.

Where a manual worker married into a professional workers family the children invariably became professional workers. I would like to point out that I am not biased towards professional or manual workers - but using the "Genes" suggestion to see if it could be applied to other statistics.

Of course it cannot be relied on 100% but it is an interesting theory.