"How many of you can tell me something about your great-grandparents?"

This means many children get to know at least one of their great-grandparents.

With Americans living longer than ever before, many children now have the opportunity to know their great-grandparents.

You've got the time to give yourself that kind of education because your great-grandparents on average, were dead at age 50.

Just think how it would be if all the great-grandparents still were walking around.

"My great-grandparents were the last traditional people I knew," he said.

When we know that, will it still make sense to eat the way our great-grandparents did?

And to think, he did not know the full names of his own great-grandparents or where they had been born.

When possible, bring great-grandparents to the school play or the soccer game.

He was only eight years old, visiting his great-grandparents for the summer.

Help great-grandparents reinforce what they have in common with children, he added.

"His great-grandparents, who came here at the turn of the century, would be proud also."

Most of our great-grandparents never traveled further than 30 miles from where they were born.

His great-grandparents, grandparents and parents were born in the state.

The chair, he said, had once been owned by his great-grandparents.

In 1999 she moved to Germany, where her great-grandparents are originally from.

"We live in a society which most people's great-grandparents would hardly recognize."

It is a joy that he and other great-grandparents cannot easily put into words.

As a consequence she only had four great-grandparents rather than the usual eight.

"My great-grandparents used to leave love notes for each other" when they were dating, she says.

Many of us have parents, grandparents or great-grandparents who moved to Scotland.

For example, second cousins are all descendants of one or both great-grandparents.

Think of how differently your great-grandparents, if they lived in Britain, looked at the world.

Most Americans can only name as far back as their great-grandparents.

In the past, many great-grandparents died long before their great-grandchildren were born.