You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....

[JaneyH_104]

Oh dear, I fear I've become an addict.

Our family holiday to the Forest of Dean last autumn included visit to Gloucester Archives (husband and son despatched to cinema!).  We went on a couple of walks through villages / areas where ancestors were known to have lived, and we also spent an hour in a very overgrown graveyard, hunting down ancestors.  (With the latter, making it a competition and saying "the first person who can find me someone called **** gets a chocolate" proved a highly successful approach!). And we DID find the grave of my great-grandparents, which was wonderful.

I'm also guilty of telling my parents stories I've researched about ancestors they knew as children.

[oldfashionedgirl]

I realized I was an addict when I was very excited on completing a royal flush re both his and my grandparents had had shotgun weddings and I found it very funny but nobody else did ! 

No offence to the ancestors, it wasn't personal, it was just I had a 'victorian' father and years later it dawns that strictness can come as a result of others mistakes.

[Rosinish]

Haha annie I think you just won the prize.   

I agree, you have definitely won the prize.  Got to admire your sons ingenuity though.  Don't think my son would think to look here, but then he is not that interested in genealogy.

Nanna,

I don't have a son...........just my sense of humour   

But yes....................... if my daughter knew about  "RC" she would have no qualms checking this site & leaving a message if I told her about it as I do, often, ignore my phone when I'm engrossed as I see it as my past-time just as anyone going for a swim but of course you wouldn't be swimming for 10 hrs & not answer your phone   

Annie

[Finley 1]

'What's a phone' ?


 

xin

[Deirdre784]

In work we have to change our computer log on passwords every month. Really useful pastime to have loads of names plus numbers (year of birth / death most remembered about the person  )

[LizzieW]

No offence to the ancestors, it wasn't personal, it was just I had a 'victorian' father and years later it dawns that strictness can come as a result of others mistakes.

I know what you mean oldfashionedgirl.  My mother was a total prude in fact, according to my dad, she was still a virgin when they came back from honeymoon    Guess what, her mother was 3 months pregnant when she married, her mother's sister had an illegitimate child and was then pregnant with the 2nd one before she got married.

[coombs]

You have to hide your annoyance when you are looking through census records on Ancestry and a family member asks you "Can you look up Hotpoint washing machine fuses as I think the one on the washing machine has gone".

[Redroger]

My dear maternal grandmother (b1872) was very religious and projected the epitome of Victorian morality; until I started family history research! One of her subjects was marriage outside the permitted relationships, first cousins etc. her husband came from a community which had been inbreeding for years; her oldest sister married in the mid 1880s and died subquentally. Her husband remarried and was again widowed. In the late 1890s he remarried again, this time to the sister of his first wife, and was again my grandmother's brother in law. Guess what, she was a witness at the wedding!

[pinefamily]

You have to love those Victorian double standards.......