Four or more generations of descendants of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) if they are properly linked:
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- 2. Waldo Emerson (1836-1842)
- 2. Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909)
- 2. Edith Emerson (1841-1929)
- 3. Ralph Emerson Forbes (1866-1937)
- 4. William Hathaway Forbes (1902-1995)
- 4. Ruth Forbes (1903-1998)
- 4. Margaret Forbes (1905-1993)
- 4. David Cabot Forbes (1908-1994)
- 4. Pauline Forbes (1911-1999)
- 3. Edith Forbes (1867-1926)
- 3. William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959)
- 3. John Murray Forbes (1871-1888)
- 3. Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969)
- 3. Waldo Emerson Forbes (1879-1917)
- 4. Stephen Hathaway Forbes (1910-2003)
- 4. Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912-1955)
- 4. Amelia Forbes (1915-2016)
- 3. Ellen Randolph Forbes (1880-1881)
- 3. Alexander Forbes (1882-1965)
- 3. Ralph Emerson Forbes (1866-1937)
- 2. Edward Waldo Emerson (1844-1930)
- 3. William Emerson (1875-1875)
- 3. Charles Lowell Emerson (1876-1880)
- 3. John Emerson (1878-1878)
- 3. Ellen Tucker Emerson (1880-1921)
- 3. Florence Emerson (1882-1906)
- 4. Helen Forbes (1905-1911)
- 4. Edith Emerson Forbes (1906-1978)
- 3. William Forbes Emerson (1884-1909)
- 3. Raymond Emerson (1886-1977)
- 4. Ellen Emerson (1914-2005)
- 4. (male) Emerson (1915-1915)
- 4. David Emerson (1916-1998)
- 4. Annie Emerson (1918-1983)
- 4. Edward Waldo Emerson (1920-2006)
- 4. William Forbes Emerson (1923-1944)
- 4. Hope Emerson (1926-1976)