In A Similar Vein To Barmaid's Thread ....

[tenrec]

How many generations are there in your living family.
I'll start.
My mum who is almost 90, me, children, grandchildren oldest of which is 21.

[2sp_]

I have 4 - my granny (90), my mum, me, then my girls (3ish and 1ish).

Mr P also has 4 - his granny (85), his mum, him, then the very same girls!

[albaqwerty]

there's me and my children and that's it.

[Barmaid]

i can't compete. None of my siblings and I have any children (although technically we are old enough to be grandparents). So only 3 generations here I'm afraid.

[tenrec]

alba you can borrow my mum if you like!

[tenrec]

I wondered if there were any great grandparents on AB.

[tamborine]

Aunt, me, children, grandkids eldest 12

[ummmm]

My Nan 84, my mum 60, me and my kids (and neices and Nephew) the eldest of which is 21.

[Barmaid]

i lost my great grandparents in 1992 (within 6 weeks of each other). They'd been married for 72 years.

[albaqwerty]

oh lordy, Ten, that sounds like a threat! :-D lol

Now from Mr Alba's side, he has 3 siblings, one of whom is a grandmother to 3, then there's his dad (who is the loveliest man ever)

[excelsior-1]

4 here ..... one remaining grand-parent in her mid eighties through to my 14 year old nephew

[mazie]

Mum, me (my 2 siblings) my children, my siblings children. My sister's and my grand children ...So 4 generations for us :o)

[nungate]

There's mum, 82, me ahem 2 nephews, (26 + 19) Queenofmean 24, and three great grandaughters, 4,3 and 2 - which makes me a great auntie!

[albaqwerty]

wow BM, 72 years, that would have been a celebration and a half.

[tenrec]

I can't imagine what it would be like to have great grandparents. I do remember my grandparents, they were very Victorian.

[Barmaid]

It wasn't Alba, because my great grandmother (who was a real matriach) decreed that there was to be no fuss - including no telegram from the Queen "because then one of us will then go and die". So it passed by with no ceremony or celebration whatsoever since noone dared defy her.

[tenrec]

Just realised, I'm a great aunt too.

[2sp_]

My own great granny lived to 99, determined she didn't want to be 100. Died due to her own will.

I'm from a long line of fossils.

[sherrardk]

My (step) dad is about 59 and is great grandfather to my niece's son, so his (still with us) mother is a (step) great great gran.

[tenrec]

My mum is a bit like that BM. She says when she dies I am not to put a notice in the paper. I am allowed to just say
(HER NAME) has gone!

[tenrec]

sherr, I think your family may be the winner if I understand you right.