Discussion on “Manual and Automated Procedures for Compiling a Very Large Sample of Centenarian Pedigrees,” by Giacomo Nebbia, Lisa Nussbaum, Annie Helmkamp, Stacy Anderson, Thomas Perls, and Paola Sebastiani, Volume 22(4)

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Notes

1 See, for example, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/.

2 See, for example, http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Pierre_Joubert.

3 Third, fourth, or higher given names increase the possibilities (for both men and women).

4 However, it must be noted that many such family histories follow male lines only, thereby losing on average half of the total descendants.