# Record for most generations living in a family **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 25, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256 "2007-06-25T00:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/81 "2013-08-12T14:02:04Z")
I personally know someone who became a grandmother at age 29 when her 14 year old daughter had a baby boy! If the pattern had continued, she would have been a great-grandmother at 43, great-great-grandmother at 57, three times great at 71, four times great at 85, five times great at 99. That makes 8 generations, I think the most possible. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/82 "2013-08-12T14:20:36Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Do any Dopers have relatives or close acquaintances that span five generations? Four-generations are easy, for example our next-door neighbors include an old woman and a few of her great-grandchildren. But I can’t think of any 5-generation family. (We come close: my wife has a living aunt with two married great-grandchildren in their mid-20’s, but neither has had children yet.) You asked this question a couple of months too late - my Uncle Jack was a great-great-grandfather before he died in June. My Dad (who is slightly older, but started his family a little later than Jack did) has several great-grandchildren, but none has yet produced any children of their own. What’s slightly scary is that in the light of the above information I have cousins who are great-grandparents, while my youngest child is still under 10. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/83 "2013-08-12T14:32:44Z")
My 66 year old sister is a great-grandmother three times over, while my 64 year old brother’s youngest child just turned one! ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/84 "2013-08-12T14:44:04Z")
My great-great grandfather married twice. The span of ages of his children was so great that one of my uncles had a great-aunt (my gggfather’s youngest child) who was only four months his senior. (Technically, she would have been a ‘half great-aunt’, if such a thing exists, as my uncle was a descendant of the first marriage, and his great-aunt a product of the second.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/85 "2013-08-12T15:51:21Z")
And let’s not forget those two guys who are grandsons of a 19th-century US president who was born in 1790… ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/86 "2013-08-19T16:33:20Z")
> [@Toni.OD](#): > > I will post photos of my Families achievement soon. My mother told me she still has the old 1989 copy of the Life magazine with my “Oma” Augusta on the cover. I would definitely be interested in seeing that. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/87 "2013-08-19T18:49:05Z")
> [@Toni.OD](#): > > Got it Zombie Threads have nothing to do with the topic. Now why couldn’t anybody explain that to me when I first asked? No, that’s not what a zombie thread is. A “zombie” happens when someone posts in a thread that has been inactive (“dead”) for a while, therefore resurrecting the thread. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256/88 "2013-08-20T02:43:58Z")
Four is pretty common in my family but there was a stage when we had Me Dad Grandpa Great Grandpa Great Grandpa’s uncle (his dad’s brother) So maybe that counts as 5, as it stand just me (and my kids) left but all of these blokes lived to over 93 except dad who passed at 78. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-most-generations-living-in-a-family/409256.md?page=4)