Fun with your age and birth year.

[edhopper]

This is rather startling to some of us oldsters. You take your present age and you figure out the birth year for the people who were your age now the year you were born.
I was born in 1955, so the people who were my age in 1955 were born in 1888! Two Centuries ago! I don't feel that old, but man! That feels really old.
BTW, there were still Civil War veterans and former slaves alive when I was born.
It is a little mind boggling.

[Twoflower]

1. Very fun to think about. I'm 61 so I was born in 61 so that makes 1900 neat.

[Delmette2.0]

2. My grandfather was born in 1880.

My sister and I are working on family stories for our children to pass along. What people did and survived through without modern medicine is amazing.

P.S. I was born in 1952.

[edhopper]

3. 70 this year

people the same age born in 1882! People from the Wild West were around when you were born.

[Dave in VA]

16. I too was born in 1952

and my paternal grandfather was born in 1860, the year Abe Lincoln was elected President. Yes, I'm old!

[Delmette2.0]

17. I am told we are not so old, yet.

I remember 40 years ago when 30 was over the hill.

[rsdsharp]

18. Grandfather was born in 1878. My late father's 115 birthday is Tuesday.

But think of Franklin Pierce, our 14th President, born in 1804. I’m not sure about today, but five years ago two of his grandsons were still living. That was 213 years after his birth.

[Delmette2.0]

19. My own Mother lived to be 92, born in 1926

They all lived through amazing events. Mom's first job was delivering telegrams on her bicycle. We have pictures of her sending a text message.

[MuseRider]

4. Arghhhh

Just 20 or so years after the Civil War. Interesting to see who was born that year.

A lot of times I will look up someone in an old movie and will see that they were born during the Civil War or just shortly after and it leaves me thinking about that and what it must have been like making it into fame in movies.

This was an interesting diversion. It actually puts things in perspective and that is good because with all the horrors of this country right now anything that would tend to ground you is a good thing or at least make you think of other things.

We all need a break from constant tragedy.

[edhopper]

5. The thing that gets me when I look up old screen actors

is how many I thought as "old men" died in their 50s and 60s.

[MuseRider]

6. There are many good things about getting older

but the bad things are freaking scary!

[MuseRider]

7. BTW thanks.

I just spent time not in myself or thinking about the other things going on now. Many thanks for that.

[edhopper]

11. Much needed

these days

[Irish_Dem]

8. If you do genealogy, you realize this all the time.

For example, my grandfather's grandparents were born in 1855.
So my grandfather was well acquainted with that generation!

[Glorfindel]

9. 1869...wow. But my grandparents were born

in 1875 and 1877, and I knew an older first cousin of my maternal grandfather who was born in 1860, before the Civil War.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. My Paternal Grandfather was born in the early 1880's in Yugoslavia.

He was in his mid 70's when he died in 1957. That would be 140 years ago. Youza!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Give em' hell Harry was President when I was born...

A young Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II the same year.

The B-52's were in the test flight stage (and still flying today)

Yet people cannot believe I am the age I am.

[edhopper]

12. So if we play the game

somewhere in the late 1870s?

[First Speaker]

14. Our national history isn't very long in terms of human lives...

I was born in 1953. (1884 is my year, if I played the game.) When I was a little boy, I spoke with a very old man who remembered the Civil War. And when *he* was a little boy, he spoke to his great-grandfather...who was an eyewitness to the Battle of Concord Bridge. So I've talked to someone who knew someone who saw the beginning of the United States with his own eyes. I still get chills when I think of it...

[edhopper]

20. Yes amazing

Three generations cover our whole history

[Srkdqltr]

15. I told this to my husband, He is 83. Someone 83 in 1938 was born in 1855.

Makes you go wow.

I was thinking about my great grandmother the other day.
I realised I know 7 generations. Great grand mother. Grand mother, mother, me , daughter, grand daughter, and great grand daughter.
Some parts of getting old are fun.