Catholics and western cultures also have a bias toward large familes. Try going back one or two more generations in your genealogy if you can't see it closer.

Catholics and western cultures also have a bias toward large familes. Try going back one or two more generations in your genealogy if you can't see it closer. Sadly and I hate to break it up. Having 10 children a few generations ago used to go with a very high mortality rate, even in Western Europe.