If someone his born in 1906 how many generations does he need to got back to the late 1700's?

Question

if someone his born in 1906 how many generations does he need to go back to the late 1700's?

Answer 1

This is extremely variable, and averages are not necessarily indicators.

My experience researching my grandmother's line (she was 20 years old in 1906) was that all of her grandparents were born in the late 1700's.

I have many male ancestors who bred children continuously from the time they were 18 until they were in their 60's. Most of them had many children from several wives (nearly all of the women died from child-birth on the last kid or from epidemics.)

Hence, if the difference between first-born and last-born is taken into account, it could take between two and six generations to get someone in a line from the 1700's to 1906.

The limit on a female's capability to have children will only affect maternal lines, so you can expect more generations will be necessary, and more might be necessary if the couple died of old age after a long marriage, and the male spouse remained faithful.

This is ripe for statistical research.

Happy hunting and have a blast.

Answer 2

I would use 20-25 years a generation.  So ~5-6.

(Average age of parents at birth of child, considering not all children are first children.)

Answer 3

i'd say 20 to 25 years is a generation, so 5.  i don't know of very many families back then with 10-year-old parents in each generation!

10-year generations in the USA, at least, are how we classify peoples' attitudes and trends every decade (the "Me" generation, "generation X", etc.)

Answer 4

10 years is not a generation, it is a decade.  A generation is the difference between parent, child, grandchild, etc.  On average, 20-25 years is the age most people have children; and in a 100 year period, that would be 4-5 generations in a family.  Some have kids younger, some later in life.  Therefore, for your specific family, the number of generations in about a 100 year time span could be as few as 3 or as many as 7 for a particular line.  The number of generations will vary with each line of your family tree.  Apply this to your question, and a person born in 1906 is on average likely to be about 6 generations from the person born in the late 1700's.  1906 is close to 1900, LATE 1700's is close to 1800.  So basically, you are talking about the 100 year stretch of the 1800s, plus a few years over that.

Answer 5

In my family tree, only 4. My grandparents were born in the early 1860s, my parents in the early 1900s; my grandparents grandparents were born before or during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 6

The thing is, it really depends on families and when people have their kids, what number in the family a child is (the 11th child of a family could be 15 or 20 years younger than the 1st child) etc. I have someone in my tree, Rosella, who was born in 1905. Her great-great grandfather (5 generations) was born in 1784. Now, I have Joseph, also born in 1905. His great grandfather (4 generations) was born in 1782. Then there's Dorothy, born in 1907. One of her third -great grandfathers (6 generations) was born in 1784.

Realistically, I'd say 4 - 7 generations, with the average probably being 5 or 6.

Answer 7

10 years is a generation  so 21