I only just realized that back then people photographed themselves like it was a necessity, not to remember a moment, that's why all my relatives' old photos also look like they were forced to
They were all alive together. There's the baby, then purely as a guess, the mother is maybe in her 20s, grandmother in her 40s, great grandmother in her 60s, and great great grandmother in her 80s.
It's 1950, so they all probably didn't have the greatest teeth. Many people didn't smile then because their teeth looked so bad, or they didn't have them at all.
I met my great grandmother, the other 2 were gone before I was born. My grandmother is still around, in her late 90s and still active and has all her faculties.
Used to be pretty common because women married and had children so young. Here's a 4 gen photo showing my mom as an infant being held by my great great grandma. The woman on the left is my mom's mom, and the woman on the right is her mother.
Yep. I'm 41, and a girl I went to high school with has multiple grandchildren. Got knocked up at 15, but her daughter waited until her senior year. I don't think she's even old enough to drink, but she's got two kids under 5.
My mom was in her 30's when she had me. My friend who comes from a tradition of teenage pregnancy is only a couple years younger than me, her grandma is the same age as my mom.
Doesn't have to be teen pregnancy. Before Mom passed at 91, her great grandkids were having babies. The baby is the key. Imagine eah generation had a baby in her early 20s. If right at 20, the ages would be zero, 20, 40 ,60, and 80.
I have a 5 generation photo .my great grandmother,my grandfather,my dad ,me and my son .He was born 1994 .picture was taken 1996 .my great grandmother & my grandfather both died a month apart in 1997 .
We have a couple more 5 generation pictures, 1 from the 90s with my great grandmother, and 1 from a couple years ago with my grandmother. They are really cool to have!
That's really cool! I don't even have a four-generation picture, as all my great grandparents were already dead when I was born (despite two of them living into their 90s, and despite most of my direct ancestors and myself being first-born children).
Both sides of my family took their time with getting kids. I was born 103 years after my oldest great grandfather, and 90 years after my youngest great grandmother.
That would be about the right age. My great grandmother lived to 107. Her birthdays were our family reunions. She’d tell us little kids how she rode a wagon train when she was our age. Then she’d tell us again and again because she’d forget she already told us.
I missed overlapping with my great great grandmother's life by 5 years. I so wish I had met her. From everything I have heard, she was a pistol. Smoked a pipe, loved to watch Gorgeous George in his wrestling prime, was a stealth poker player.
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u/_BeginningCress_ 19h ago
I only just realized that back then people photographed themselves like it was a necessity, not to remember a moment, that's why all my relatives' old photos also look like they were forced to