THIRTY NINE generations? Holy cow. What is a generation, 25 -30 years? So we are talking about 1170 years ago? The closest I ever got to that length was my mother was born in Scotland with a last name of Lumsden and I found out there was a Lumsden clan in the late 1200s that was at the negotiation meeting with King Edward the 1 reps, the evil King portrayed in the movie Braveheart, obviously he didn’t hang them or kill them all off though like in the movie otherwise I probably wouldn’t be here. But I mean going back 1170 years, that’s in the 800s, thats the time of Pope Leo III who crowned Charlemagne.
On average, a “generation” has been determined to be 18 years.
The “baby boomer generation” is thereby born between 1946 and 1964.
BTW, we BBGs hate you
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I did not do the tracing, but I have seen a genealogy that shows me to be 12th generation American. That paternal ancestor entered America in 1616 in a place called Elizabeth City, I think in the Norfolk/ Hampton Roads neighborhood. Twelve generations gets my family back to 1616. I can’t imagine how far back 39 generations would take you. Amazing . . . and interesting!