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This template is not meant to be a comprehensive list, but just a list of the non-controversial generation types, from Western Society, which is a narrow categorization. If you really want to add an item on the list, please gain consensus on the talk page first -- any adds will just be reverted otherwise.
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Xennials is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a "micro-generation" [5] [6] or "cross-over generation" [7] of people whose birth years are between the mid-late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s.
In order to readily have the generation stated for a certain person, the Ahnentafel numbering may be preceded by the generation. This method's usefulness becomes apparent when applied further back in the generations: e.g. 08-146 , is a male preceding the subject by 7 (8-1) generations.
The word pedigree is a corruption of the Anglo-Norman French pé de grue or "crane's foot", either because the typical lines and split lines (each split leading to different offspring of the one parent line) resemble the thin leg and foot of a crane [3] or because such a mark was used to denote succession in pedigree charts.
Baby boomers didn't all benefit from free education, and not all millennials are struggling to buy a home.
David Brooks reviewed the follow-up book about the next generation titled Millennials Rising (2000). "Millennials" is a term coined by Strauss and Howe. [102] Brooks wrote: "This is not a good book, if by good you mean the kind of book in which the authors have rigorously sifted the evidence and carefully supported their assertions with data.
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill delves into what constitutes a generation, from Boomers and Gen X to Millennials, Gen Z and beyond.