Do You Have twins in your family?

[Bilge]

Its really weird I always thought the chances of twins being born in a family was a totally random occurrence.

However I have only come across two sets of twins in my entire family tree these being been in the same family.

My point is that it is obviously not a random thing but a thing inherited  via your genes (not levi 501's).

Do you have twins in your family?

My twins run in the PIPER family.

[karenlee]

Yep

Every second generation in the STRICKLAND line there have been twins... and in one instance to date...... quads.. ( luckily it was my cousin... she had both twins and quads and yes they were natural, there was no medical intervention at all ).

Karenlee

[Bilge]

Umm I though I had better add a little body to this thread and put who my ancestor twins are who knows I may make contact with a new member.

James & John PIPER. b 3rd November 1839,

Charles & Francis PIPER b.23rd September 1855, Beyton,Suffolk.

[kiwihalfpint]

Yes sure do.


Twins apparently run on my fathers side of the family.  My father was a twin, his fathers fathers brother has heaps of twins as well.  I have lost count of how many.    Now on my fathers mothers paternal side... their are also twins.

[Bilge]

Did you know that in the UK one out of every 80 births are twins.

How the hell do explain this one?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-377839/Black-white-twins.html

Now I am more confused after reading this: http://multiples.about.com/od/pregnancy/a/familytwin_2.htm

No one is quite sure why, but the Yoruba tribe in West Africa has the highest rate of twinning in the world. A study concluded that the mother's diet was the cause, being high in cassava, a type of yam or sweet potato. The peelings of this vegetable are thought to contain a chemical that causes hyperovulation. In addition, a 2006 study found that women who consume dairy are five times as likely to have twins.

[Just Kia]

Yep, we've got twins in the tree...
In 1778 (my 6xG granparents had boy/girl), 1810 (my 5xG grandparents had boy/girl) and most recently 1841 (my 4xG grandparents had boy/boy).
In 1713 (OH's 7xG grandparents had boy/girl) and 1951 OH's Grandparents had (boy/boy only 1 surviving).
Neither of us are descended from any of the twins and all of these twins occur in different lines.

[karenlee]

Strangely enough all the twins that we have found have been boy/boy...no girls at all.

Karenlee

[butterlily]

Laugh if you may - but I have twins and I must admit I enjoyed eating twin bananas!!! so perhaps there is something in bananas!!!

Butterlily

[behindthefrogs]

Identical twins are thought to be entirely random while fraternal twins are a genetic trait which has been carried by the mother.

See:

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=86

David