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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: September 2007 Posts: 629 Send Message	MargarettawasMargot	Report	29 Mar 2010 13:59
	My eldest Great Grandfather was born in 1840,in Fiji,the eldest son of an English Methodist missionary. My oldest Great Grandmother was born in 1848,on the Murray River near Benalla,Vic.,Australia.
	Researching: Malcolm-Prestonkirk, Scotland. Ivey,Williams,Preston, Barlow,Mills, King, Rea,Cottingham,Hollinshead,England.Griffin, O'Keefe,McManus, Trainor,Fleming,Smith, Clark/e,Ireland.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 9,249 Send Message	Sue In Yorkshire.	Report	29 Mar 2010 16:16
	My great granfather was born 1821,Great grandma was born 1822. My dad was nearly 60 when I was born..
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 14,375 Send Message	Annx	Report	29 Mar 2010 16:31
	My oldest great grandparent was born in 1852 My mother was born when my grandmother was age 50.....no IVF then....a natural birth.
	Researching: Staffordshire, Warwickshire
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	29 Mar 2010 16:50
	I'm feelng positively juvenile. My eldest great-grand was born right at the end of 1851. (The others were all born in the 1860s.) Interesting pattern in many of these posts -- I too am from his second marriage, and my grandfather was his youngest child, born when my gr-grf was 50 -- almost to the day, I hadn't really thought about that before! And that gr-grf also outlived all the others. Huh!
	Researching: Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,311 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	29 Mar 2010 16:58
	They are all clustered around the early 1850's, with my Mum's Mum's Mum being the eldest, born in 1850.
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: December 2009 Posts: 3,704 Send Message	TeresaW	Report	29 Mar 2010 17:03
	Round about 1860s and 1870s. Seems really strange now, that I actually knew one of them, that it was so long ago they were born.
	Researching: Lovell, Morse, Baker, Duval, Mortlock, Gibbs and Bristow.
Member Since: March 2008 Posts: 340 Send Message	Redrobin	Report	29 Mar 2010 17:09
	My eldest G/grandfather b 1833 Eldest G/grandmother b 1835 SylviaG
	Researching: Pinner/.Chapman...Norfolk and Utah
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 4,778 Send Message	Tawny	Report	29 Mar 2010 18:05
	My eldest great grandparent was only born in 1893 and his wife in 1897. The other set of great grandparents were born in 1919 and 1920. My grandfather was born in 1918 meaning my paternal grandfather is older than my maternal great grandparents.
	Researching: No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 2,387 Send Message	George	Report	29 Mar 2010 18:14
	1891 gt grfather was born and 1897 gt grmother. George
Member Since: August 2005 Posts: 9,933 Send Message	Stella ~by~ Starlight★..★..★	Report	29 Mar 2010 18:39
	Both my paternal grt grandparents were born in 1830 xx
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,096 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	29 Mar 2010 18:50
	Of the ones I've been able to find, 1842 is the earliest. Another was baptised towards the end of 1843, but I've never found a date of birth for him. Gwyn
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,325 Send Message	Teresa With Irish Blood in Me Veins	Report	29 Mar 2010 19:30
	Most of mine were born 1850'/60's However, my Dad's Grandfather was baptised 17th Jul 1836...No DOB though. His wife was born in 1845. .
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 24,291 Send Message	SueMaid	Report	29 Mar 2010 21:02
	I have a birthday card written to me by my great aunts who were born in 1881 and 1882. They were the sisters of my grandfather. Now I feel old:-)) Sue xx
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 299 Send Message	Crystalcat	Report	29 Mar 2010 21:19
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 299 Send Message	My g grandparents were born 1840 one side and 1855 the other
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	29 Mar 2010 21:34
	My great-grandparents are an interesting mixture - the eldest (mum's maternal grandad) was born in 1860 but the youngest (dad's maternal grandma) wasn't born until 1893. The biggest age gap I've got between my great-grandparents as couples is between my mum's maternal grandparents (eight years and five months) and the smallest is between her paternal grandparents (eighteen months).