Geneaology

[MORTARDUDE]

I have been interested in geneaology for the past 30 years. I have been lucky that others had already done all the heavy research. I did find a good deal of info about one of my great-grandfathers and his service in the Civil War thru Confederate pension records...

The reason I am posting this is that I can trace one side of my family back 9 generations ( including myself ) to 1670. In calculating the birth and death dates for all my grandfathers I get....57, 56, 42, 73, 68, 73, 68, 73....the last 73 is my father..

You will note the first two nearly the same and the alternating of the others in past 5 generations. Anyone else have anything like this in their family line ?? It is spooky to say the least....

My gggg-grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. My gg-grandfather only had one eye, and was 17 when it started, and didn't serve in the Civil War..

Larry