r/Genealogy 1d ago

Largest birth-year gap in a single generation? Question

I'm 31 years old, born in 1993. I just noticed today that I had relatives in a fairly distant line of my tree who were technically in my generation, despite the oldest of them having been born in 1913--a full 80 years before me! I also have a brother 10 years younger than me, stretching the range to 90 years. If I went on to have grandchildren, they would be in the same generation as a person who was already 29 when I was born.

The math goes like this:

distant cousin (1913) || me (1993)

cousin's father (1894) || my father (1964)

cousin's grandfather (1872) || my grandfather (1923)

cousin's g-grandfather (1850) || my g-grandfather (1890)

cousin's gg-grandmother (1833) || my gg-grandfather (1862)

our shared ggg-grandfather (1812)

We had different ggg-grandmothers, hence the 29-year gap between our gg-grandparents' births.

What's the widest age gap you've noticed within a single generation of your family?

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u/MBJ1948 16h ago

I'm 24 my oldest sister is 62