JIGSAW GENS

Jigsaw Gens: The Complete Series

A full rundown of every American generation spanning the 1560s up through the present day — from youngest to oldest!

Anthony Eichberger
3 min readJul 4, 2024
Photo by Dario Valenzuela on Unsplash

Between mid-2023 up through mid-2024, I’ve compiled an anthology series entitled “Jigsaw Gens” — looking at American history and cultural evolutions through the lenses of various generations.

After more than a year of research, I’ve identified 27 different generational cohorts unique to American society. While the birthyear ranges aren’t scientific or iron-clad, they give us a broad canvass for surveying many of the ways in which parents and their children have differed throughout the history of the United States.

These 27 generations, listed from youngest to oldest, are as follows:

Alphas: born early-2010s to PRESENT-DAY / 2024)

  • Alphas = Gen AA (“double-AA,” like the battery!)

Zoomers: born mid-1990s to early-2010s

Millennials: born early-1980s to mid-1990s

GenXers: born mid-1960s to early-1980s

Baby Boomers: born mid-1940s to mid-1960s

Traditionalists: born late-1920s to mid-1940s

GI-Gens: born early-1900s to late-1920s

Hemingrebels: born late-1880s to early-1900s

Missionaries: born early-1870s to late-1880s

Stowegressives: born late-1840s to early-1870s

Golden Renegades: born early-1830s to late-1840s

Redeemers: born mid-1810s to early-1830s

Transcendentals: born late-1790s to mid-1810s

Unimpressionists: born late-1770s to late-1790s

Madisonians: born early-1760s to late-1770s

Goodpublicans: born mid-1740s to early-1760s

Liberty Lords: born late-1720s to mid-1740s

Septennials: born late-1700s to late-1720s

Enlightening Rods: born mid-1690s to late-1700s

Lumineers: born mid-1670s to mid-1690s

Glory Warriors: born late-1650s to mid-1670s

Magnas: born early-1640s to late-1650s

Cavaliers: born mid-1620s to early-1640s

Kingdomites: born late-1600s to mid-1620s

Inflectors: born early-1590s to late-1600s

Concentrics: born mid-1570s to early-1590s

Parliamentarians: born early-1560s to mid-1570s

Keep in mind, I intend to build upon this research — often exploring niche topics across a generational framework.

Additionally, as many historians will point out, people from past centuries would have had a much different outlook on what “generations” meant to them. For example, some families had siblings whose birthyears were literally two or three decades apart from one another!

“Jigsaw Gens” is intended to give us a chronological glimpse into how these generations, as broadly as they may be defined, would progress (or regress!) when it came to their behavior and values.

Eventually, I’d like to delve even deeper into the concept of microgenerations (“cusps”) that bridge together the youngest members of one generation with the oldest members of the next generation.

Until then, I hope you learn some new things from reading my anthology — scratching the surface of Americans’ journeys from the 1560s up through the present day.

This compilation was originally made available on July 4, 2024.

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Anthony Eichberger

Gay. Millennial. Pagan/Polytheist. Disabled. Rural-Born. Politically-Independent. Fashion-Challenged. Rational Egoist. Survivor. #AgriWarrior (Deal With It!)