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Subject: Generations of your family members
Written By: Fink on 11/06/22 at 10:50 pm
What generation do your relatives (siblings, parents, uncle, aunts, nieces, nephews, grandparents, etc. belong too?
Three generations above mine
Paternal great grandparents: 1886-1900 (Lost Generation)
Maternal great grandparents: 1883-1915 (Lost/Great Generation)
Two generations above mine
Paternal grandfather: 1926 (late Greatest Generation)
Paternal grandmother: 1932 (Silent Generation)
Paternal great uncles/aunts: 1910-1946
Are the siblings and half-siblings of both paternal grandparents.
Maternal grandfather: 1940 (late Silent Generation)
Maternal grandmother: 1941 (late Silent Generation)
Maternal great uncles/aunts: 1903-194X
Are the siblings and half-siblings of both maternal grandparents.
One generation above mine
Paternal aunts: 1954-1959 (younger Baby Boomers/Jonesers)
Paternal uncles: 1961 & 1963 (late Baby Boomers/Jonesers)
Paternal first cousins once removed: 1939-1968+ (late Silent Generation to early Gen X)
Are the first cousins of my father.
Father: 1967 (Generation X)
Maternal aunt: 1963 (late Baby Boomer/Joneser)
Maternal uncle: 1966 (Generation X)
Maternal first cousins once removed: Oldest found was 1918 (Greatest Generation); youngest unknown
Are the first cousins of my mother.
Mother: 1973 (Generation X)
My generation of the family tree
Paternal cousins: 1977-1994 (Xennials/Millennials)
Maternal cousins: 1992 & 2001 (Millennial & Early Gen Z)
Brother: 1995 (Zillennial)
Older sister: 1999 (Zillennial)
Me: 2002 (Gen Z)
Younger sister: 2005 (Gen Z)
Paternal second cousins: Oldest found was 1962 (late Baby Boomer); youngest unknown.
Maternal secound cousins: Oldest found was 1940 (late Silent Generation); youngest unknown.
Our closest common ancestors are our great grandparents.
One generation below mine
Paternal first cousins once removed: 2000-2022+ (Generation Z/Alpha)
They are the collective great grandchildren of my paternal grandparents.
Niece: 2019 (Generation Alpha)
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 11/07/22 at 1:37 am
The information I know of right now is as follows...
Maternal grandfather: b. 1941
Maternal grandmother: b. 1943
Maternal aunt: b. 1962 (Baby Boomer)
Father, his twin: b. 1962 (Baby Boomers)
Mom: b. 1963 (Baby Boomer)
Maternal Uncle: b. 1964 (Generation X)
My brother: b. 1997 (Gen Y, according to the American Psychiatric Association)
Me: b. 1999 (Apparently Gen Z, although I swear I remember the mid-2000s (2004-7) in more vivid detail than my brother)
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: Fink on 11/07/22 at 1:42 am
My brother: b. 1997 (Gen Y, according to the American Psychiatric Association)
Me: b. 1999 (Apparently Gen Z, although I swear I remember the mid-2000s (2004-7) in more vivid detail than my brother)
I don't like starting Gen Z at 1999 personally.
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: xX07-GhostXx on 11/07/22 at 1:45 am
I don't like starting Gen Z at 1999 personally.
I've read Gen Y ends at 1997, which means (if the people who say this are right, although I'm tempted to make the beginning either 2000 or 2005 if you're asking based on my own measures) that 1998 would be when Gen Z starts.
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: AmericanGirl on 11/07/22 at 8:50 am
What generation do your relatives (siblings, parents, uncle, aunts, nieces, nephews, grandparents, etc. belong too? ...
My Dad was a "Greatest" generation. My Mom was a "Silent" generation. Me and one sibling are late Boomers. Another sibling is early Gen X.
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: Contigo on 11/07/22 at 12:59 pm
Parents were born in the very early 1920s - Greatest Generation
I am a boomer, wife's a boomer...wouldn't you like to be a boomer too (be a pepper ,drink Dr. Pepper ;D )
My son is Generation Y
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: Howard on 11/07/22 at 2:22 pm
Both My Parents (born in the 1940's)
Me (Born In the early 1970's)
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: Ripley on 11/07/22 at 3:27 pm
The only family I’ve ever been close to is my maternal Grandma’s and some of my Grandpa’s. I don’t know all the info, but I’ll give it a go. Now I might get some generation titles wrong so I just won’t include it.
3 Above Me:
Great Grandma in 1911
Great Grandpa in 1910
1 Great Grandma and Grandpa in the 1910’s
Not sure how many siblings, nieces and nephews
2 Above Me:
Grandma in 1930
Grandpa in 1931
2 Great Aunts from Grandpa in the 1920’s
1 Great Uncle from Grandma in the 1920’s
1 Great Uncle from Grandma in the 1930’s
1 Great Aunt from Grandma in the 1930’s
1 Great Aunt from Grandma in the 1940’s
2 Great Uncles from Grandma in the 1940’s
There were 2 or 3 more who passed away when they were babies in the 1930’s and at least one miscarriage
1 Above Me:
My mom in 1965
My mom’s sister in the 1950’s
My mom’s 3 brothers in the 1960’s
At least 7 2nd cousins from Grandma’s siblings in the 1960’s/1970’s
2 second cousins from Grandpa in the 1960’s
My Group:
My sister in 1989
2 first cousins in the 1970’s
7 first cousins in the 1980’s (‘80, ‘82, ‘85, ‘85, ‘86, ‘86, ‘88)
1 first cousin in the 1990
1 first cousin born in 2000
At least 5 third cousins born in the 1970’s/1980’s
1 Under Me:
2 nieces born in 2014 and 2022
8 2nd cousins in the 2000’s
10 2nd cousins in the 2010’s
1 2nd cousin in 2022
At least for fourth cousins born in the 2000’s/2010’s
2 Under Me:
1 3rd Cousin in 2022
Subject: Re: Generations of your family members
Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/08/22 at 2:26 pm
Sibs & me-Baby Boomers
Parents-Silent Generation
Grandparents-Greatest Generation
Great-grandparents-Lost Generation
Cat