Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131006233702/@comment-4621372-20131008191312

Gandhi, LG. That one always ticks me off, partially because I used to fall aprey to it.

Well, it depends on the author. I, for instance, am one end of the spectrum; even if he or she was concieved a day after the POD, they don't exist, and weren't famous. There might have been a child, but it won't be as important and won't have the same name (probably in the second case).

But I know other authors go back generations; I bel;ieve when we had the discussion referred to by Yan someone mentioned 7 generations as the maximum. And there are some which are even longer.