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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

My general idea is that if you finished highschool/began college before.after 
the early seventies  was/ is a definite generational change.  Maybe it could 
vary depending on region ?

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--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 9:34 AM
> On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> 
> > I'm on the leading edge of the baby boomers, born
> after WW II. The
> > first baby boomers were born in 1946. I was born in in
> '47.  I've
> > heard 1946 - 64 given as the time period, but that
> would make Obama a
> > Boomer too, which seems not quite right to me, as his
> mother was a
> > child of WW II era parents. Other have said it ends in
> 1961 or even
> > sometime in the 1950s. I think you had to have parents
> who were adults
> > during WW II to be a Boomer.
> 
> Book: The Age Wave, by Ken Dychtwald is often offered as
> the  
> authority. He says 46 to 64.
> 
> Wikipedia says:
> Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was
> born during  
> the demographic Post-World War II baby boom(1946-1964)
> [1][2] , and is  
> also a term used to describe a person who is part of the
> Baby Boom  
> Generation (controversial birth years, starting as early as
> 1942,  
> ending as early as 1953, ending as late as 1964).
> Originally, everyone  
> born during the 1946-1964 boom in births was considered
> part of the  
> Baby Boom Generation, but over time, many experts have come
> to believe  
> that two separate cultural generations were born during
> this period.  
> The most common name used for the younger generation born
> then is  
> Generation Jones. Many influential experts and publications
> now use  
> the term Generation Jones, and the victory of Barack Obama,
> born in  
> 1961, in November 2008 significantly increased the
> awareness of  
> Generation Jones, with many experts pointing to Obama as
> the first  
> Generation Jones President.[3] [4][5][6] The most
> widely-used  
> beginning year for Generation X is 1965, although a small
> but  
> passionate group of people sometimes argue the minority
> view that  
> Generation X started as early as 1961.
> Following World War II, many countries, such as the United
> States,  
> Canada, Australia, and New Zealand experienced an unusual
> spike in  
> birth rates, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the baby
> boom.
> 
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