# How many generations. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645 "2000-12-01T22:08:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/1 "2000-12-01T22:08:51Z")
Who do you know who has living members from the greatest numbers of generations in their family. If my husband’s grandmother hangs on for a few more years–and she well might, her mother lived to be 104–she could be a great great grandmother. (Her oldest great grandson is engaged.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/2 "2000-12-01T22:12:05Z")
We have four generations in my family, with the oldest great-grandaughters being of marriageable and childbearing age. My grandmother the matriarch is almost 96, is she holds out just a little onger she could be a great-great-grandmother too. ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/3 "2000-12-01T22:15:52Z")
My mom is 74, dad is 78. Their oldest great great granddaughter is 15 yrs old. ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/4 "2000-12-01T22:22:46Z")
My in-laws have five generations. My husband’s great-grandmother is still alive, and his sister’s son was born a year and a half ago. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/5 "2000-12-01T22:29:19Z")
I saw a picture in Life (IIRC) of seven or eight generations of women/girls (the youngest was newborn) from this one family. Each woman had had her first child (female) somewhere around the age of 15 or 16. It was not something I thought they should be proud of. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/6 "2000-12-01T22:33:58Z")
Not a record, but all four of my grandparents lived long enugh to see their great-granchildren born. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/7 "2000-12-01T22:36:00Z")
Well we have 4 Generations in my family the oldest person being Great Grandma who is 91 y/o and the youngest being my cousin Megan who is 9 I think… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/8 "2000-12-01T22:53:55Z")
Mom’s grandmother was 91 or so when I was born. When my 2nd cousin gets married/has kids her grammmy’ll be a great-grammy at probably arould the age of 70, if not earlier. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/9 "2000-12-02T00:12:25Z")
Up until when she died a couple of years ago, my grandmother’s grandfather’s sister made 6 generations total, although her children’s generation had been gone for 20 years. She died at 102 and was still completely intact mentally until the last week. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/10 "2000-12-02T03:17:47Z")
My great-grandmother died at 98 in 1969, and at that time, one of her descendants had just given birth to her (only) great-great-great-grand-child. Six generations living at one time. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-generations/43645/11 "2000-12-02T04:26:24Z")
Do multiple “steps” count? My step-great-grandmother just turned 100, and my step-cousin (on the same side of the family) just had her second baby – so now Great-Grandmom has two step-great-great-step-grandchildren. Or something. Anyway, I think that _ought_ to count as five generations.