When you were born, how many ancestors of yours were alive?

[Hithaeglir]

One set of great-grandparents and a widowed great-grandmother (mom's side), grandparents from both sides. My maternal relatives live for a very long time. They all die around 100. My grandparents are 96 years old and still kicking.

[Graham]

Parents +2
Grandparents +4
Great Grandparents +6
Step Great Grandparent +1 (great grandparents divorced in 1940s)

12(+1)

[Chron]

11. Parents, grandparents, 3 paternal great-grandparents, 2 maternal grandparents.

I come from a long line of young pregnancies, and in fact I still have a great-grandparent alive today.

[Hektor12]

12: All grandparents and 6 of great-grandparents were alive. My maternal grandfather was first to die, when i was 2. Last one of my great-grandparents died in 2015 and other 3 grandparents are alive.

[Hexachordia]

One of the cutest thread ever.

My paternal grandpa died in 1975, 9 years before my birth, of lung disease, paternal grandma in 1998. Of the great grandparents, only one survived by 1984, my maternal great grandma, she passed away in 1999, aged 99. She was a liquor lover, she drank several cups of rice wine after diner everyday since her youth untill the night before the day she died, a legendary character. So, two maternal grandparents, one paternal grandmother, one maternal great grandma.

Both of maternal grandparents were gone by 2009, grandpa in 2004, grandma in 2009. I envy those who still have 4 grandparents alive untill today.

[nittionia]

I think 7

[retfala]

parents
4 grandparents
1 grand-grandparent

[Richmondbread]

I missed out because I was born late to parents in their 40s who were born in the 1930s. I was born in 1979 and one of my grandparents was already dead by that time.

[Danaan]

9

Two great-grand-mothers, one great grandfather.

Both great grand-mothers lived over 95 years. One of the two was a really nice person.

One grandfather died at 65, due to cancer (maybe his functiong alcoholism played a role). I remember him but I wish he had lived more because he was really smart.

One great-grandfather also died young. He had a surname of probably Italic origin, owned land and had three wives, the first two died one after another. I don't know what happened there. But his last wife was the one who lived over 95 years. Not really the best person as far as I can tell (I did not really know her).