great great grandparents
Parents' parents' parents' parents
Great great grandparents are the parents of your great grandparents—four generations back from you.
Each person has sixteen great great grandparents, assuming no overlap in family lines.
The term extends the generational naming pattern: grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, and so on.
Also written great-great-grandparents.
Ancestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- forefathersAncestral predecessors
- foremothersFemale ancestors collectively
antecedents · ascendants · elders · patriarchs · matriarchs · bloodline · lineage · descent
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
- old countryImmigrant's ancestral homeland
- cultural identityBelonging through shared traditions
legacy · inherited traits · family recipes · oral history · ancestral homeland · roots · nostalgia · bygone era
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- immigrantsThose settling abroad
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
Edwardian era · nineteenth century · pre-war · old world · historical records · census records · ship manifests · birth certificates
forebears
Ancestral family members
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- forefathersAncestral predecessors
foremothers · antecedents · ascendants · elders · patriarchs · matriarchs · bloodline · lineage · descent · pedigree
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
- old countryImmigrant's ancestral homeland
cultural identity · legacy · inherited traits · family recipes · oral history · ancestral homeland · roots · nostalgia · bygone era · ancestral home
pioneers
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- immigrantsThose settling abroad
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
Victorian era · Edwardian era · nineteenth century · pre-war · old world · historical records · census records · ship manifests · birth certificates · death records
great great grandparentsgreat great grandchildren
Descendants four generations removed
great great grandson · great great granddaughter · descendants · posterity · progeny
great great grandparentsparents
Mother and father
mother · grandparents · father · immediate family · close relatives
grandparents, grandparent, parent, parents, parental, parentage, parenting, grandly, grandeur