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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:37:31 -0800 (PST)

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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