Canadian Couple Welcomes 100th Grandchild

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Canadian Couple Welcomes 100th Grandchild
Canadian Couple Welcomes 100th Grandchild | ABC News - Yahoo! News

Just in time for Christmas, Viktor and Aneta Urich of Grande Prairie, Alberta, welcomed their 100th grandchild, the Daily Herald-Tribune reported.

The Urichs, who are in their early 60s, have 16 children. Their eldest son, Heinrich - father of newborn Henry - has nine kids younger than 12.

"We get along fine," Heinrich Urich told the Herald-Tribune. "It's not boring. There's always something interesting going on."

The Urichs aren't the first to hit the 100-grandkid milestone. Bai Ulan, a widow from the Philippines, was recently photographed with some of her 107 grandchildren, 138 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

The average U.S. family size is 3.19, according to 2009 Census estimates.

For the Urichs, having 100 grandchildren - half with names like Henry and half with traditional Russian names - can be a little confusing.

"There are a few hard years, but when the children grow up, it gets easier," Viktor Urich told the Herald-Tribune.

And with such a big family, it's tough to get everyone together. But the Urichs plan on two reunions per year - one on each grandparent's birthday.
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That's amazing! A full quiver to be sure! They definitely applied the words be fruitful and multiply! Congrats!
 
I wonder if they remember every grandchild's birthday! Or even all their names...

My uncle (good Catholic boy) had 6 children, was widowed, re-married another good Catholic girl who had 6 children herself. (All "children" were adults at the time.) All those kids got married and had families. The last Christmas card he sent before he died a few years ago had as many of the extended family as they could gather. I think there were about 80 people there, and maybe a dozen more who couldn't make it.

This included his and her adult children, the spouses of those children, then their children, and I think there were a couple or three babies of the 3rd generation down.

About half of them were my blood relatives, but other than the cousins of my own generation, I wouldn't have recognized any of them.
 
Wait til the Duggar kids (19 in all) grow up and have kids of their own, and the parents have a grand child, too.

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The Duggar Family: 19 Kids And Counting!
 
They must be gearing up for war and survival. There seems to be a race to be the largest race population on earth. There's strength in numbers, you know. However, I consider very large families to be wasteful of resources and land space that are scarce. Even I knew this as a little girl when I cracked open the World Encyclopedia at 10 years old and read its doomsday prediction of logarithmic-chart population booms and starvation from lack of food. I said, "NO. Thank you!" Uh-uh. Not going there. Not going to become a baby factory for someone else. I stuck to it to this day. I'm single, have responsibilities only to myself, and my cost structure is a fraction of people my age.
 
I do wonder about such a bog family in an industrialized society.
 
I do wonder about such a big family in an industrialized society.
 
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They must be gearing up for war and survival. There seems to be a race to be the largest race population on earth. There's strength in numbers, you know. However, I consider very large families to be wasteful of resources and land space that are scarce. Even I knew this as a little girl when I cracked open the World Encyclopedia at 10 years old and read its doomsday prediction of logarithmic-chart population booms and starvation from lack of food. I said, "NO. Thank you!" Uh-uh. Not going there. Not going to become a baby factory for someone else. I stuck to it to this day. I'm single, have responsibilities only to myself, and my cost structure is a fraction of people my age.
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I know what you mean. I am glad that I have one son who have 4 daughters. Having a large family can be a bummer when there are hardly enough jobs and food to go around. Here on the rez (reservation) we do have large families and we are Catholics. :eek3:
 
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