PHYL Livingstone of High Wycombe has celebrated five generations of her family, not once but twice.

Mrs Livingstone was 61-years-old in 1995 when photographed with her mother Min Sutcliffe, 80, her daughter Yvonne Ball, 42, her granddaughter Joanne Stemp, 24 and her great grandson Brendan Stemp.

Earlier this year a family picture shows Mrs Livingstone, 90, her daughter Yvonne Ball, 71, her granddaughter Joanne Stemp, 53 and her great grandson Brendan Stemp, 29 and her great great granddaughter Sailor when she was five-weeks old.

On Wednesday the Guinness World Records website said the most generations alive in a single family was seven in 1989 in the United States.

The youngest great-great-great-great-grandparent being Augusta Bunge (USA) aged 109 years 97 days, followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter aged 70, her great-grand-daughter aged 52, her great-great grand-daughter aged 33 and her great-great-great grand-daughter aged 15 on the birth of her great-great-great-great grandson on January 21, 1989.