Ontario family with 6 living generations welcomes baby boy

The first words of newborn Ethan John Curtis from Mississauga, Ont., have a very good chance of including the word grandma.

Little Ethan, who was born on the weekend, has four grandmas, each greater than the last. CBC reported this family has an incredible six generations alive, making Ethan's oldest living matriarch his great-great-great-grandmother.

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Each of these women had children young, permitting them all to be alive for the latest baby's birth to his 19-year-old mother, Priscilla Steiner. From there, CBC counts the generations that span 52 years.

Stephanie Steiner, 34, is Priscilla's mother and now a grandmother. Brenda Steiner is now Ethan's great-grandmother at the young age of 51. Next up comes Marilyn Cross, who you can call great-great-granny, thank-you-very-much. Take a deep breath for this last one, Doreen Byers, who at 86 is the great-great-greatest grandmother.

Stephanie told CBC it's nice to have a big, loving family, though she doesn't recommend others have kids as young as her family has.

This big family doesn't have the highest number of living generations ever recorded but it's close. An American family that had seven living generations in 1989 holds the Guinness World Record. The oldest grandparent in that family was Augusta Bunge, aged 109.

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The eldest of a British family that welcomed its sixth generation in 2011, Gladys Sweeting, was a 91-year-old who gave birth to her first baby in 1935, when announcing a child meant knocking on neighbours' doors.

The family's newest child received his welcome on Facebook.