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How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
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May 12, 2024, 6:58 PM
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on my mother's side. My maternal grandfather was born in 1880. My mom was born in 1917, when he was 37. I was born in 1957, when she was 40. My son was born in 1994, when I was 37. For whatever reason we have about 40 years between generations. We will never have "5 generations in one photo" like I've seen people post on FB. Unless we all start living to be 250.
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My grandma was 45 when she had my dad
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May 12, 2024, 7:06 PM
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and my dad was 41 when I was born. I'm more close to my second cousins than I am my first. Most of my first cousins are 20-25 years older than me. I think families are going away from that now and those you see that have 5 generation photos, for the most part, had a few teen pregnancies.
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Re: My grandma was 45 when she had my dad
May 13, 2024, 6:35 PM
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Same here. My second cousins are in my age group
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Re: How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
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May 12, 2024, 7:18 PM
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Man .... you ain't got nutin' on me. My great grandfather fought in the Civil War (for the Confederacy ...... Hampton's 1st South Carolina Cavalry ..... including at Gettysburg). My grandfather on my father's side died in 1916 and my grandfather on my mother's side died in 1920, 26 years before I was born. My paternal grandmother died about the year I was born, so I never knew any grandparents.
My dad was 41 when I was born and my mother was 39. My first child was born when I was 34. My son had his first child at 32. I'll probably never be in a four generation photo.
PS: However, my GGG Grandmother, Dicey Langston, had 22 children, ost of whom lived, which was rare in the late 1700 and early 1800's. She grew up in Laurens and then married (at about 16 I think) Capt. Thomas Springfield and lived in Traveler's Rest. Interesting lady ...... Google her.
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Just read Dicey Langston's bio. Man, that's impressive. You should be proud.***
May 13, 2024, 6:30 PM
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My grandmother's great-grandfather was born in 1750.
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May 12, 2024, 7:52 PM
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He died before the Civil War started. My great-grandfather was born right at the start of the Civil War in 1961.
BTW, fwiw, I'm in my 40's now. Think that comes to an average of right at 55yo for every male ancestor of mine having a child who was also my ancestor.
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Dang... you come from prestigious bloodlines, son. That's cool as chit.***
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May 13, 2024, 6:16 PM
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Re: How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
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May 12, 2024, 8:52 PM
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My parents were 38 when I was born and I have a sister who is 18 years older than me. She is a year older than my mother in law. Mom and Dad were both born in 1925. Our kids were born in 1990 and 1994 so neither ever met my Dad and don’t remember my Mom.
Interestingly enough, I am refinishing a 3 board pine kitchen table my great grandfather built somewhere around 1900. Just finished applying the last coat. It was in my grandparents’ house when I was growing up and my uncle had it and gave it to me in 2005. It has been our kitchen table ever since. Pic attached. I also have the Remington model 1900 12 gauge double barrel shotgun my great grandfather bought from Sears and Roebuck in 1910. It had been handed down through the generations but had been kept in a gun case in the back of a closet for the last 60 years or so. I finished a piece of live edge wood and now it is mounted above my fireplace. Pic #2.
My Dad died in 1989 and Mom in 1995 so they have been gone for a very long time. These family heirlooms help keep me in touch.
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My maternal Grandmother had her eighth and last child
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May 13, 2024, 5:55 AM
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at 42; my Mother had her fourth and last child at 43; my sister had her fourth and last child at 37. So, spacing out runs in the family, although when evened out, it's been about 30 years between each.
My Mother used to joke that when she and Dad went somewhere with my youngest brother (a long time TNet member,) everyone thought they were his Grandparents....60 years old with a 15 year-old. Yet, she would comment that the age difference kind of kept them feeling youngish. I think that difference contributed to him being more grounded, very level-headed, a completely responsible and moderately-thinking person. In addition to being athletically-inclined, he developed a passion for outdoor activities, such as gardening and hunting, thanks in large part to our Dad's influence. Thus, in his case the age difference worked well for him. (Footnote: he is about 38 years older than his son and has developed the same close relationship with him, and my nephew is like his Dad: well-grounded and very responsible.)
As the oldest, I developed more into the gunslinger type, a jump into the fire feet first mentality that often baffled my folks. I preferred to jump out of airplanes rather than tend gardens or hunt. Strangely enough, our middle brother is just that: halfway between the personalities of us. Our sister, God bless her, never could quite figure any of us out!
Weird how these kinds of things work out sometimes; yet, despite ages my folks had a hard-lined rule with each of us: We are the parents; you aren't; we're not your chummy best friends...we have our OWN close friends; you can have yours. They were friendly but never once were willing to cross that imaginary line in the sand separating the generations. And they made sure they didn't with the grandchildren either.
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My oldest sister was the exact opposite. She got married and started having kids
May 13, 2024, 7:32 AM
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(in that order) right out of high school. Her oldest son got married and became a dad at the age of ~20. HIS oldest child got pregnant and had a daughter at the age of 17. SHE got pregnant and had another daughter at about the same age. Had my sister not died very unexpectedly at the age of 66, she would have been in one of those "five generation" pictures by about age 73.
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It's different for every family. My mother was one of ten children spread out
May 13, 2024, 7:40 AM
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over twenty+ years. She had five of us, spread out over 15 1/2 years. So, I got into some weird situations. I actually worked with a first cousin out at the chemical plant for a few years, until he retired, that was more than twenty years older than me. (He was the oldest of the oldest of the ten children of my maternal grandmother, I was the next to youngest of the next to youngest of the ten children.) Having a first cousin who is literally old enough to be your father was weird, to say the least. He had already seen more and done more by the time I really got to know him than I probably ever would.
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Re: How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
May 13, 2024, 8:38 AM
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My friend got pregnant and had a daughter at 14. Her daughter (sister-daughter, because my friends mother raised the daughter, too, as a sister to my friend) got pregnant and had a daughter at 17, so my friend was a grandmother at 31. The granddaughter is 20 now, I think. But my friends mother only just recently passed away, so they had 4 generations spanning maybe 45 years, and were regularly seen all together.
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Re: How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
May 13, 2024, 10:13 AM
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My first immigrant ancestor was in the Virginia colony in 1679, age unknown. I am 10th generation born in country, dob 1948. Quick and dirty math for 269 years yields an average of approximately 27 years.
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Re: How many years between generations? I think my family is a bit odd, especially
May 13, 2024, 6:34 PM
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My grandfather on daddy’s side was born in 1869. When he was 44, my father was born (1913). When my father was 41, I was born. Pretty much the same on mama’s side. Never knew but one grandparent. She died when I was 7.
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Well, I guess I'm not such an exception after all.. looks like a lot of folks
May 13, 2024, 6:44 PM
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have 40 years (plus or minus) between generations. Growing up it always seemed like everybody's parents were much younger. My mom was like Aunt Bee, and their mom drove a Mustang convertible and wore Foster Grant sunglasses.
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