great-great-grandparents
Parents' parents' grandparents
Great-great-grandparents are the parents of your great-grandparents—four generations back from you.
Most people never meet theirs, knowing them only through family records or photographs.
She traced her ancestry to her great-great-grandparents in Ireland.
Ancestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- forefathersAncestral predecessors
- foremothersFemale ancestors collectively
- antecedentsThings coming before
elders · predecessors · patriarchs · matriarchs · ascendants · founders · originators · sires
What's passed down
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
ethnicity · culture · folklore · recipes · inheritance · artifacts · photographs · letters
Record of descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- descendantsThose who come after
- generationsPeople born around same time
- recordsStored data or albums
archives · documentation · registries · census · genealogists · oral-history · research · tracing
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- colonialOf occupied territories
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
settlers · homesteaders · immigrants · emigrants · daguerreotype · tintype · frontier · nineteenth-century
forebears
Ancestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- forefathersAncestral predecessors
- foremothersFemale ancestors collectively
antecedents · elders · predecessors · patriarchs · matriarchs · ascendants · founders · originators · sires · dames
legacy
What's passed down
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
roots · ethnicity · culture · folklore · recipes · inheritance · artifacts · photographs · letters · diaries
pedigree
Record of descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- descendantsThose who come after
- generationsPeople born around same time
records · archives · documentation · registries · census · genealogists · oral-history · research · tracing · charts
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- colonialOf occupied territories
pioneer · settlers · homesteaders · immigrants · emigrants · daguerreotype · tintype · frontier · nineteenth-century · horse-and-buggy
great-great-grandparentsgreat-great-grandchildren
Offspring four generations removed
great-great-grandson · great-great-granddaughter · descendants · progeny · posterity
great-great-grandparentsparents
Mother and father
grandparents · immediate family · close relatives · mother · children
parents, parent, grandparents, grandparent, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, grandchildren, grandson