Twins - how many sets do you have?

[domino]

We have twins on both sides. Mine go back about 50 years, but my Husbands Uncle had twins.
I was 5 months pregnant before I had a scan to reveal...yes....twins. Both girls, now 25, fraternal, but, people still can't tell the difference...lol even though one has shoulder length hair and the other down to her bottom!!!!
Best wishes.....Iris 

[kerryb]

Interestingly enough I have found stacks of sets of twins in my own family tree.

I have recently started working on my partner's family tree and so far no twins at all.

Hmmmm

Kerry

[little meg]

We have many twins in our line, and now that I have done a fair bit of research I can see which line it runs from. I am one myself, and love it. 

It was the freckle on my nose that gave me away. 

But the best one is three generations of twins.
One twin had twins, and one of them had twins. Don't know if that is a record.  Has anyone else found this in there lines?

Go the twinnies 

Margaret

[kerryb]

That sounds quite unusual and I suppose it must have been a recessive gene or something

Kerry

[KathMc]

We have three sets of identical twins going right now. My brothers are identical, one of them has identical girls and a cousin has identical girls. My mom was on pregnancy number 3, with 11 months between each baby. The doctor heard a faint heartbeat and told her, "Oh, you are finally getting your girl." She went to the hospital for an emergency c-section. My father was told both mother and baby were in danger, and out came 2 healthy boys instead of the one sickly girl they expected, both about 6 pounds. Mind you, my mom is not quite 5 feet tall.

The rumor is my gg grandmother had twins. We always thought she died in childbirth with the babies, but after getting her death cert, it appears she died a couple days after birth from an infection. We don't know what happened to the babies (no records at their church at all), but my mother and a great-aunt always said they had heard they were fraternal. I think the only way non-medical people would know that back then would have been a boy and a girl.  Oh, where are those babies.

I just started working on my Murphy branch and there are a lot with the same birth year. I haven't determined yet if they were twins or "Irish twins." I'll keep all posted when I hear anything.

Kathleen

[Simon G.]

We get a lot of twins of my materal grandmother's side of the family.  Not many elsewhere though...although recently I came across in my research on my Mum's side a set of quads.  That, I must admit, was the last thing I was expecting to find.

[nutkin]

7 so far and still counting. It is funny this comes up because I did count when I was pregnant.  Scary as when I was pregnant this past year the doctor kept asking me if there were twins in the family as I was huge. I could only say yes but it was my great X's 3 grandmother who was the closest. Does that count?

[BACKCHAT]

Twins. My mother had four sets of twins.Boy and girl each time.We are all still surviving.Two of the sets share the same birthdate two years apart.
My database (4900) entries based on four associated family names has thrown up 73 twins.5 sets of triplets and
2 sets of quads. The DB originates from
 the seventeen eighties.

I have not verified each and every one and they are recorded by like dates. But I can vouch for my own family line.

Keep up the good work folks.
You never know what you will find

John.

[toni*]

apparently 1 in 8 pregnancies are twins so it would not be unusual therefore to find twins when the parents had 8 + children as they often did in the 19th century.

my uncle (married in to the family) is a twin and so are his sisters,, one  of his sisters has twin children.

actually on my direct lines i only have 3 or is it 4 sets of twins.

i wonder if this is the same for red/ ginger hair? my uncles has ginger hair as does my cousin and his half sister, two of my great uncles and their mother also.