What does 5th 4 th great grandparents means?

Question

What does 5th 4 th great grandparents means?

Answer 1

Starting with you, your 5th great-grandparents count as 8 generations (4th great would be 7 generations). Figuring 20 years per generation, 7 would figure 140 years back and 8 would be 160. Using your birth year, subtract that figure to get an approximate year they were born (example: if you were born in 1975, 140 years ago would be 1835 and 160 years ago would be 1815).

Answer 2

Some people use such terms, which is confusing, to denote how many generations ago an ancestor was.  To avoid confusion, one should merely state how many generations ago: e.g., parents would be 1 generation ago, grandparents 2 generations ago, etc.

4th grandparents could be 4, 5, or 6 generations ago, depending upon the source.

Answer 3

Start with your parents,

their parents are your grand-parents,

your grand-parents ,parents,

are your great-grandparents, or 1 x grandparents,

their parents are,

your great-great grandparents, or your 2 x grandparents,

You add another great for each generation that

you go back. So your 5th, great grandparents would be your

great, great, great, great, great-grandparents.

Instead of adding all those greats it is much easier to say they are your 5th. x great-grandparents

And remember you have two sets of grandparents, and two sets of 5 x great-grandparents

Answer 4

That's how far back the line goes.

Answer 5

You have two sets of grandparents, four sets of great-grandparents, eight sets of great-great-grandparents (2nd great-grandparents), sixteen sets of great-great-great-grandparents (or 3rd great-grandparents); 32 sets of great-great-great-great-grandparents (4th great-grandparents), and 64 sets of great-great-great-great-great-grandparen...  (5th great-grandparents