Do You Have twins in your family?

[Phil Goater]

I'm a twin (two boys), my father was a twin (boy/girl) and my maternal grandmother had twin sisters and twin aunts. My wife has no history of twins in her family and we haven't had any. I don't expect my daughter therefore to produce a twin. However.....time will tell!

These days it's recognised that a twin can be slow to relate to the outside world and so be slow to learn to talk and one of them tends to be left-handed.  I wonder if a genealogical survey can throw up any other twin-isms. There's also the question of how far apart the births were and the significance of having different birthdays. The research possibilities must be endless...............

Noo -I think I'd feel even more sorry for your relative's wife if the twin was still alive when he returned!

Phil

[vic1]

3 sets of twins that i've found on one side  in less than 5 generations. my grandmother had two sets  one set of which died due to her rhesus blood they i believe were identical  but she already had apart from my dad  a set of non identical twin girls. never heard of twins being mentioned other in the family and then began  this hobby and discover her grandmother had had  a set of twins who survived childhood but both died in young adulthood so she didn't know them. funnily enough when i was pregnant with both daughters and didn't discover  till i was  almost 5 months with both of them I was scanned to check for twins. would have loved twins then but now no.