How many people can boast a perfect set of named gt-gt-gt-grandparents?

[Keith Sherwood]

Another thing I find quite uncanny, is how the years-gap between each generation seems to have a habit of evening itself through the generations.   Many of my gt-gt-gt-grandparents seem to be born within a very few years of one another, I have a John in 1796, a William in 1796, a Mary in 1797, a William in 1793, a Susan in 1795, a Henry in 1796 and a Mary Ann in 1795 - no others later than 1811.  For my generation of my family, therefore, 1796 was quite a good year for future gt-gt-gt-grandfathers to be born.  If only they'd known...!
Keith

[Timbottawa]

On my mum's side I have 15 out of 16 ... the missing one has the surname Carter, so it's a bit tricky!

On my dad's side, 9/16 plus one with no surname.  It's my grandmother's actor/actress parents where everything goes haywire!

[Lloydy]

I was getting a bit excited because I thought this thread referred to the 16 Gt Gt Grandparents - which I can say I have now found all of them, and am incredibly pleased

As far as my Gt Gt Gt Granparents go I've only found 13 so only another 19 to find That's going to take me ages  

Jan

[Jaki]

This thread made me go and update my computer files and did i get a shock!!!

I have 14 of the 16 on my mother's side .... missing the parents of her great grandmother ...

I have 8 out of 16 on my father's side and i think a couple of those are a lost cause at the moment  .... need to find a couple of surnames ...

Jaki

[andrewalston]

I thought I was doing SO well...

I have all 16 of my gg grandparents, though missing two maiden names. 20 of the previous generation have been logged, though 3 maiden names are missing. Two illegitimate gg grandmothers are likely to block the way, and the couple from Ireland will cause difficulty.

But then I already know, with the help of others who struggled before me, the names of three ggggggg grandparents!

I know my relationship to over 500 different people! And I only started this quest at Christmas!

[Paul E]

Great going, Andrew!  You ARE doing well!

cheers

Paul

[whoosh]

I have 28 of 32 gr gr gr grandparents.
Have just found Census records for my long lost gr gr grandparents so I am hoping that will lead me to the remaining 4.

I have 20 of 64 of the next generation (my gr gr gr gr grandparents), I think this will be harder to find.

Cheers,
Darren M Flowers
Wyrallah NSW
Australia

[MarieC]

Darren

As one Aussie to another - you have done superbly well, getting such a number of people in the next generation back (4xggrandparents) when you are here and they were there!

I am wondering how you did it.  I have a mere handful of that next generation back, because parish records are uninformative (as to fathers' names, etc, let alone mothers!) and so difficult to access here, except on LDS microfilms.

Marie

[whoosh]

Hi Marie,
I gleaned the majority of my information off the IGI with a few looks at the original parish records, but only for 4 of the lines.
I only have one of the 20 of my 4xgr grandparents born before 1800 which I think has made it easier. Census records have helped as have other people who ahve helped me via rootsweb groups.
Have a nice day,
Darren
very wet Wyrallah (5 mins drive from Lismore)
NSW Australia