Counting the Generations

Top ten math facts from my family tree:

1. My children were born just before 2000 (GenY/Millennials).
2. My grandparents were born around 1900 (the Greatest Generation). 
3. My 3X great-grandparents were born around 1800 (Westward Migration).
4. My 6X great-grandparents were born around 1700 (the Colonial period).
5. My 10X great grandparents were born around 1600 (the 1st generation to America).
6. I have 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, etc., continue the math...
7. Only 3 of my great-grandparents were alive in my lifetime (all on paternal side).
8. Continuing the math... I have 4,096 10X great-grandparents! 
9. To date, I have discovered all 16 of my 3X great-grandparents, and only 34 (< 1%) of my 10X great-grandparents.
10. I have traced 5/16 of my 3X great-parents' ancestries back to at least 1600.

Generation Names:
My 2X great-grandparents fought in the Civil War.

My great-grandparents lived during the post-Civil War era and the Great Migration.

My grandparents experienced the Great Depression & WWII in adulthood.

My parents are the Silent Generation - they experienced WWII in childhood and the Civil Rights Movement as adults. They were patriotic traditionalists. They worked hard and kept quiet. Children should be seen and not heard. (study.com: The Silent Generation: Definition, Characteristics & Facts).

I am a Babyboomer/Hippie - the modern "counter-culture" generation. I experienced the end of the Cold War, space exploration, the rise of technology and mass media, and the beginning of the Information Age.

My children live in the age of  Digital Globalization and the War on Terror.  It is incredible how the world has changed so much in just a few generations.