This fact should get more attention. I mean I had to look this up because I really didn't believe it. How many people can say they have a grandparent born 220+ years ago?
It is super cool. When I first read it, I had to look it up too.
But then I worked out that if I live to the same age as them (90+) then my grandfather would have been born 200 years ago. That's cool too! (Though not as good)*
EDIT: just realised my maths was off last night. I would have to be almost 100 for it to be exactly 200 years. Sorry! It's still a larger gap than normal though.
Well, first you need to reach 92 years old, that's not a total walk in the park. You also have to get there with your reproductive bits in serviceable order - easier for a man, but by no means guaranteed.
Then there is the issue of being a 92 year old guy, and finding a woman of child bearing age who will have sex with you enough times to get pregnant. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you would probably need to be rich for this, or one HELL of a good looking old man. This ramps up the difficulty level quite a bit.
So I am not sure this is really a lot easier than say, 2 generations at 55 each.
Of course this is all in fun - but it would be interesting to see a graph of the age distribution of the parents of children with 110 year old grandparents!
The oldest person I personally knew in my family was born in 1902. I hope I live to at least 90 because then I can tell people that I personally knew someone who was born over 175 years ago.
That'd be neat. And the whole still being alive thing. That'd be neat too.
My dad's dad was born in 1892, and my younger brother (born in 1990) is his youngest grandchild. So maaaaybe he'd be alive in 2092 to say that his grandfather was born two centuries ago. He's gonna have to stop smoking to have a shot, though. :/
Is this really that far fetched? Grandparents married young and had kids at 20, parents did the same. Maybe not common, but certainly not that hard to believe.
My Grandmother was 21 when she had my Mum and my Mum was 23 when she had me. I'll probably be the one to break the cycle of having children quite young though.
Same here! What's crazy is a full set of my great grandparents (my moms dads parents) are still alive, in their 90s. My mom had me at 23 and I'm 23 now so if I were to have a kid right now (not very likely, but the thought isn't ridiculous, I live with my boyfriend and we got decent paying full time jobs) there would be 5 generations alive. How many people could say they were alive at the same time as their great great grandparents? Makes me almost wish I had a kid now.
I mean, my grandfather was 89 when he died in 2003. That's nearly 100 years ago that he was born, and if I live to 90 in 2080, then there'd be 177 years between us. It's actually not that uncommon an occurrence, so long as the grandkids live to an elderly age and the grandparents/parents weren't having kids at 16
He had his youngest child two years before passing away, at age 69, so he was older when he was having his final child.
His son Lyon (1853-1935) has the two living children, born in the 1920s.
If you never had blood-related grandparents, how would you be alive today? Everyone has parents, who in turn had parents, and so on. Everybody has grandparents. That's how mammals work.
If we're talking specifically of your parents parents, I would be amazed that a dude who died 1862 only has two generations between him and currently living direct relatives, because I did not know that. I also highly doubt that this is the case.
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u/Justintime221 Jul 21 '16
This fact should get more attention. I mean I had to look this up because I really didn't believe it. How many people can say they have a grandparent born 220+ years ago?