Some families can get pretty big. But I doubt you\u2019ll find a family bigger than this one from Illinois.<\/p>\n
This family has so many grandkids that the picture frames can barely fit on their walls!<\/p>\n
Meet Leo and Ruth Zanger of Illinois, who\u2019ve been married for 66 years and have 100 grandkids.<\/p>\n
Yes, 100 grandkids. That\u2019s a lot of kids to keep track of, and I don\u2019t blame you for doing a double-take at that header.<\/p>\n
Their 100th grandchild was born in 2015, after years of anticipation.<\/p>\n
When they realized the number of grandkids they had was 99, it became a bit of a race to see which of their kids would birth number 99.<\/p>\n
Technically, not all of the kids are \u201cGrandchildren\u201d properly. Some of them are great-grandchildren. But when you\u2019re around long enough to have this many, the distinction doesn\u2019t matter as much.<\/p>\n
Baby number 100\u2019s name is Jaxton Leo Zanger. He\u2019s the 46th great-grandchild.
\nIt really begs the question of who\u2019s keeping count.<\/p>\n
In fact, if I was one of the grandparents, I might end up forgetting people\u2019s names.<\/p>\n
At least my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can\u2019t blame me for that.<\/p>\n
I mean, how many people do you know have 53 grandchildren alone?<\/p>\n
But wait, 53 grandchildren and 46 great-grandchildren only make 99. That other one? That\u2019s a great, great-grandchild. Yeah, it keeps getting crazier, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
It started when Leo and Ruth had 12 children of their own.<\/p>\n
Already, that\u2019s more than most people ever plan on having. But I suppose they wanted a big family.<\/p>\n
Their eldest child, who\u2019s now over 60, already had kids of his own before his youngest sibling was born. So the youngest sibling was born an uncle already.<\/p>\n
Crazy how that works, huh?<\/p>\n
Needless to say, family gatherings are one heck of an occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we get together, it\u2019s big. It\u2019s really big.\u201d \u2013 said Donna Lane, one of Leo and Ruth\u2019s daughters<\/p>\n
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Some families can get pretty big. But I doubt you\u2019ll find a family bigger than this one from Illinois. This family has so many grandkids that the picture frames can barely fit on their walls! Meet Leo and Ruth Zanger of Illinois, who\u2019ve been married for 66 years and have 100 grandkids. Yes, 100 grandkids. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}