https://www.facebook.com/GlasgowCityHSCP/posts/-happy-107th-birthday-to-margaret-at-our-riverside-care-homeborn-in-1919-margare/1051197883898740/

As I said before though, the chances of someone older than all of these people coming out of anonymity in the future is decently high.

As for your remark regarding being less interested in 110 Club input, I think that makes sense for a couple of reasons:

1. You're becoming older and more mature, whereas the average age of the more prolific posters/users on the 110 Club remains relatively the same.
2. Quite a large contingent of the posters you grew up with on the 110 Club has moved to this forum, including the ones who perform more serious research.
3. Obviously, contracts forbid employees from posting too much information/documentation on forums.

So I suppose in these past years there have been some shifts in where to find which information. The 110 Club seems to have regular posters with a younger average age than the ones here; undoubtedly, that also leads to a difference in focus and in interests.

Pure noise obviously plays its part here, but another reason for this is that 2024 is the year where people in 1919 are turning 105 - the last year affected by the 1915-1919 WWI drop in birth numbers. Therefore, it can be expected that from a purely statistical perspective, 2024 would be expected to be the year with the fewest people aged 105+ in a while: and thus also the year with the fewest deaths. 

1920, however, is the year with the most births ever in Scotland: 136,546 compared to 106,268 in 1919. This means there's a fair chance the 1920 cohort may end up being significantly larger than any cohort preceding it (but then again: when you're talking numbers on the scale of maybe 30-50 105+ year-olds living in Scotland at any one time, it gets harder to predict things with pure maths and statistics; there's every possibility the 1920 cohort ends up not being the largest - it's all down to chance.) 

There are also more and more cases occurring where a person can slip under the radar. I think it can be exemplified with this timeline:

• Before 2015, everyone in Scotland to reach the age of 109 had had at least some coverage regarding their age in the media. Even Williamina (Minnie) Weeks, who for a long time had eluded me, got a minor mention for her 107th birthday.
• Dorothy Jackson, who died in 2015, was the first person to reach 109 with no media coverage. Even then, she received a full-length, detailed obituary in a major newspaper.
• The death of Scotland's oldest person (or someone presumed to be), historically, entailed at least some media coverage. But in 2021, Janet Mackay - who had previously been covered at length in the media - went without any public mention of her death. 
• Later on in the year, it was discovered that a previously anonymous 109-year-old named Lois Fraser had succeeded Janet Mackay as Scotland's oldest person. She had perhaps the least coverage of anyone over the age of 109 thus far: just a small obituary in a local paper. (Incidentally, through an unusual turn of events, her birthday cards from the monarch are now in the possession of Ell)
• This finally culminated earlier this year with an 111-year-old woman receiving absolutely no coverage of her age and no obituary or mention upon her death. 

Essentially, with no central register available to us of centenarians, we're reliant on news stories, social media posts, and family contact to construct lists of the oldest living people. And, unfortunately, print media has been on a decline for years (there are also significantly less "human interest" stories - the umbrella longevity falls under). I've been following/researching longevity for 6 years, and I'd say the preponderance of people aged 105+ being reported on has roughly halved during that time (with a sharp drop during the pandemic that I'd hoped would be temporary - it wasn't). 

Then there's social media. The nature of sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc make it extremely difficult to actually find relevant posts - you can't search exact terms/keywords, filter by country (this is a huge issue if I'm looking for specifically Scottish cases - a drop in the ocean of the English-speaking world) - and the rise of AI-generated scam posts which use posts of centenarians celebrating birthdays as bait certainly doesn't help. 

At heart, I love researching new things and making new discoveries - it's one of the reasons I have this hobby alongside genealogy, etc. But these factors have made it really discouraging in the past couple years, which is why I've been less active recently (additionally - I feel like the general vibe of this hobby-sphere - especially on the 110 Club - has shifted significantly, and a lot of the content posted there no longer interests me).

Article: https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/catoosa_walker_news/news/ringgold-woman-turns-107-years-old/article_dd0e4796-6149-11ee-af2d-93166c376f2c.html

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