| Having entered so many large families in
Family Forests, I was curious to know the largest
number of children said to have been born to one
woman. You will probably be as surprised as I was
when you see the number that is recognized by the
Guinness Book of World Records. The answer can be
found by going to the website of the National
Organization of the Mother of Twins Clubs, Inc.
at http://www.nomotc.org/famous.htm
and clicking on their "Multiple
Multiples" button. This piqued my
interest in the occurrence of multiple births in
our Family Forests. A search in "Facts"
"Contains" for "twin" in the
Founders & Patriots Family Forest locates
hundreds of pairs of American twins, mostly from
the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's. All of these twins
are lineage-linked to their parents, and
oftentimes to hundreds or thousands of ancestors,
descendants, and other relatives.
The search feature can be more narrowly
focused by adding a surname (in "Name"
"Contains") to the above search
criteria. Some of the surnames with twins in the
Founders & Patriots Family Forest are Alden
(2 pairs), Allen (4 pairs), Arnold (2 pairs),
Bacon (2 pairs), Barnard, Bartlett (3 pairs),
Bascom, Battles (2 pairs), Bigelow, Blodgett,
Bow, Bowen, Bradbury, Bridge, Bright, Cadwell,
Caldwell, Camp (2 pairs), Capron (5 pairs),
Carter, Chase (2 pairs), Child, Clark (2 pairs),
Clifford, Coit, Cook (2 pairs), Coolidge (2
pairs), Cunnabell, Cutler (2 pairs), Darrow,
Davenport, Delano (2 pairs), Dickinson, Eaton (3
pairs), Emery (5 pairs), Fairbanks (4 pairs),
Faxon (3 pairs), Fay (5 pairs), Felton, Foote (9
pairs), French (6 pairs), Gardner, Gilman (2
pairs), Gookin, Gore (2 pairs), Green (12 pairs),
Greene, Gregory, Hale (2 pairs), Hart(t) (2
pairs), Hawkins, Hayden (2 pairs), Hill,
Hinchliff, Holbrook (2 pairs), Holt, Hotchkiss,
Howe (3 pairs), Hurlbut (10 pairs), Isham (4
pairs), Jaquith (2 pairs), James, Jennison,
Keith, Kelly, Kendall, Keyes, Kirby, Lane,
Latane, Leeds, Linfield, Lithgow, Livermore (4
pairs), Loring, Lovering, Matthews, Meigs,
Miller, Mills (3 pairs), Morgan, Morrison, Morse
(2 pairs), Munroe, Newcomb (3 pairs), Niles (2
pairs), Parker (3 pairs), Payson, Perry, Pierce
(3 pairs), Poor, Porter, Prentice, Prince,
Raymond, Redington (4 pairs), Rice (5 pairs),
Richardson (3 pairs), Rossiter, Sandford (4
pairs), Savil, Shaw, Skinner, Smith, Stanton,
Stearns (3 pairs), Stevens (4 pairs), Stillman,
Stoddard, Stone (2 pairs), Thayer (4 pairs),
Thorlo (2 pairs), Vinton (4 pairs), Vose (2
pairs), Warner, Welles (2 pairs), White (4
pairs), Whitney, Wood, and Wyncoop.
A search for "triplet" located
triplets in the Emerson, Fay, and Tilton
families.
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