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TOP 10 INDICATORS THAT YOU'VE BECOME A GENE-AHOLIC
10. You introduce your daughter as your descendent.
9.
You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to,
even
though you're related.
8.
You can recite your lineage back eight generations, but can't remember
your
nephew's name.
7. You have more photographs of dead people than living ones.
6.
You've ever taken a tape recorder and/or notebook and/or laptop to a
family
reunion.
5. You've not only read the latest GEDCOM standard, but also you understand it.
4. The local genealogy society borrows books from you.
3. The only film you've seen in the last year was the 1880 census index.
2. More than half of your CD collection is made up of marriage records or pedigrees.
1.
Your elusive ancestor has been spotted in more different places than Elvis!
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Murphy's Genealogy Law
*When
at last after much hard work you have solved the mystery you have been
working
on
for two years, your aunt says, "I could have told you that".
*Your
grandmother's maiden name that you have searched for, for four years, was
on a letter
in
a box in the attic all the time.
*You
never asked your father about his family when he was alive because you
weren't
interested
in genealogy then.
*The will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic.
*Copies of old newspapers have holes occurring only on the surnames.
*John,
son of Thomas, the immigrant whom your relatives claim as the family progenitor,
died
on board ship at age 10.
*Your great grandfather's newspaper obituary states that he died leaving no issue of record.
*The keeper of the vital records you need has just been insulted by a another genealogist.
*The
relative who had all the family photographs gave them all to her daughter
who has no
interest
in genealogy and no inclination to share.
*The
only record you find for your great grandfather is that his property was
sold at a sheriff's
sale
for insolvency.
*The
one document that would supply the missing link in your dead-end line has
been lost due to
fire,
flood, or war.
*The
town clerk to whom you wrote for the information sends you a long handwritten
letter which
is
totally illegible.
*The
spelling of your European ancestor's name bears no relationship to its
current spelling
or
pronunciation.
*None
of the pictures in your recently deceased grandmother's photo album have
names
written
on them.
*No
one in your family tree ever did anything noteworthy, owned property, was
sued, or was
named
in wills.
*You
learn that your great aunt's executor just sold her life's collection of
family genealogical materials to
a
flea market dealer "somewhere in New York City."
*Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value of the data recorded.
*The 37-volume, 16,000-page history of your county of origin isn't indexed.
*You
finally find your great grandparent's wedding records and discover that
the brides' father was
named
John Smith.
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Genealogists never die, they just lose their census.
