An 87 y/o Ukrainian may break the Guinness World Record for having the largest family with 346 members!
Pavel Semenyuk, a retired construction worker who resides in southwestern Ukraine, is looking to claim the Guinness World Record for having the largest family on the planet — that’s according to the Daily Mail.
Semenyuk’s family is made up of 346 living members, and that includes his 13 children, 127 grandchildren, 203 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Family get-togethers can be a challenge. Vira Semenyuk, one of Pavel’s daughters, says when birthdays or weddings take place, they cook up large pots of food to feed everyone.
Many of the men in the Semenyuk family also work in the construction business and they sometimes build new homes for their family members who are getting married.
The younger members of the Semenyuk clan also see plenty of familiar faces when they go to school, as 30 of the children attend the same school.
Semenyuk admits that he has a hard time remembering the names of everyone in his family, but he can still recall the names of the older members.
While the Semenyuks have a chance to establish a new Guinness World Record for family size, they might have a harder time beating the record for the largest family reunion. That record is held by the Porteau-Boileve family, which set it back in 2012 when 4,514 members gathered together a the reunion.