re: #308 Anymouse

My mother is a grandmother, but my son does not seem likely to have children. She will not be a great-grandmother.

When I was a teenager one of her great-grandmother was still alive (my great-great grandmother).

I have a five-generation photograph of my mother’s grandmother, her mother, her, me, and my son.

I never knew any of my great grands. The last one to die died 20 years before I was born. And neither of my parents knew their grandparents that well with the exception of my Dad and his Dad’s mom. I think part of the reason why is I’m descended from so many younger children. My parents were both the youngest and all four my grandparents were late in their family line too. As a result even though I’m not even 30, my “youngest” great grandparent was born in 1898 and the oldest in 1874.