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.
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:
My 66 year old sister is a great-grandmother three times over, while my 64 year old brother’s youngest child just turned one!
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.)
And let’s not forget those two guys who are grandsons of a 19th-century US president who was born in 1790…
I would definitely be interested in seeing that.
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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.