How many generations does it take to get from 1830 to 2008?

Question

How many generations does it take to get from 1830 to 2008?

Answer 1

several of my great grandfathers were born around 1830; therefore, 3 generations from them to me.  My mother  born 1908 knew all of them on her side and they told her of people they knew who were in the Revolution.  I'm 65  The generations of women are limited to about 45 years, but men can sire children into their 60's and 70's with younger wives.

If you deal with comparable ages, though, a person born in 1830 would have children on average around 1855; their children, 1880; theirs, 1905; theirs; 1930; theirs 1955; theirs 1980, theirs 2005.  Ergo, 8 generations.

Answer 2

A generation is about 29 years, means 6.

Answer 3

33 years in my family, for 5.3

If your family runs heavily to women who get pregant at 14, and you count the first baby, for 14 years per generation, 12.7.

If you count from the last child of a series of 60-year old men whose hair is still curly and whose eyes are still blue*, and who find someone to love him like his first ex wife used to do, for 60 years per generation, 2.96.

I averaged (p-c) for all of my 16 gg grandparents, where "p" was their birth year and "c" was the birth year of their middle child, and got 33. Your results may vary.

* That is a line from a song you probably haven't heard, by Hank Williams the first.

Answer 4

mostly likely between 7-8 maybe 9 depending on when the next generation was starting at having a kid at 25 and your kid having a kid at 25 it would take roughly 8 generations

Answer 5

Find out what the average age is for women giving birth.  Use that number and divide it into the number of years between 1830 and 2008.

Let's use 22 as the average age of women giving birth over that time period.  So every 22 years another generation is being born.  From 1830 to 2008 is 178 years.

178/22 =  8.091

So from 1830 to 2008 there would be 8 generations.

Answer 6

It depends on how fast you breed.  You can usually calculate generations at an average of 20 years each, but you could be way off.  Anywhere from 13 years to 50 years is technically possible so it could be as few as 4 generations or as many as 13 generations.  (I had grandparents and great-grandparents that were the same age/generation because of this.)  At an average of 20 years, that would be 8.9 generations since 1830.  You also have to remember that time and place play a strong role in reproductive age and that often men are considerably older that their wives, especially in the period you are talking about.  So you may have one number of generations by the male line and a larger number by the female line.

Answer 7

23 in my family

Answer 8

It depends on the ethnic group. Some encourage teenage marriages, so you could have 9 generations in there. Some encourage later marriages, so you might only have 6. Quick math in genealogy is to figure it on a 25 year generation, so the average is 7 generations.

Answer 9

about five assuming one generation every 20 yrs. Could be more, could be less.

Answer 10

AVERAGE can be estimated from age of mother, and "common" age of childbearing.  That can be off if she has a large family where the oldest is born when she is 16 and the last one in her 40s.

My grandfather was born in the 1830s, and close to 70 when my mother was born (youngest of his 2nd marriage). I was born when my mom was 40... and my youngest child born when I was 37, in 1987.  

"Averages" can be misleading in genealogy.