What generation JW are you? (page 3)

drew sagan

I'm a 1st generation witness, which seems to be pretty rare here.

Greendawn: 1880's would have to be even older than I am...and that's old! My grandmother was baptised in the 50's. This makes me wonder a new wonder...what's the oldest "generations" out there. Of course, here we are dealing with people who've said, "just a minute now..."

Cate

Mulan

technically, I'm second generation, but my grandparents did become JW's about 5 years after my parents did, in about 1954.

Does that make me 3rd generation?

Carmel

baby boomer... retiring again soon!

carmel

MissBehave

4th

looking_glass

Mulan, I would say you are 3rd. It counts.

My grandparents came in the late 30's to the early 40's. I think it had to do with the depression and people in the family were looking for something better. You know the whole, is this really all there is? doesn't god have something else planned for us? Those thoughts. As for my grandmother, it was not a stretch for her to become a JW, she was pentacostal (the tongue speaking, snake charming kind), so becoming a JW was a breeze for her.

I wonder why the 3rd gen seems to be the gen that leaves? There has got to be a theory behind that somewhere? How many people have up and coming gens? I have a nephew who just got bptz'd, so he is 4th gen, poor kid.

DannyHaszard

3rd gen in 1951 two 'anointed' (a Jewish married couple named the Tanlers) recruited my grandfather and doomed my family to misery.

unclebruce

7th so far.. I'm diging up my olds and re-baptising them mormon style ..

alt

damselfly

4th ~ born in. The 2nd generation was my grandmother who converted her mother (my greatgrandmother) this was in the early 60's I think.

Dams

Lady Lee

hmmmm how to answer some of these questions

My grandmother was the first witness but she became one long after my mother was married and out of her home. She was DFed for a while but is back in now - 96 years old

Then my mother became one but that was while I was in foster care except for 1 year when I was 11 She is still in

I went back to my mother when I was 16 and then I was baptized a year later at 17 yrs old. I'm not in and never going back

And I was raising my kids as JWs before I left They are out and never going back

So we have 4 generations that were involved at different times. We have the generation thing going on but it doesn't have the impact as some people where the whole family has been in for generations

Good grief my family is messed up

What generation JW are you?