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

[IgorStrav]

You even trace family trees (well the basic info, not buy certs or anything) of TV stars or other famous people etc, if they were on WDYTYA or from biographical info on their parents online. Ie Ross Kemp, who I met once, has Norfolk parents but has a great grandad who came from London and his mum from Oxford. He was fostered to a Norwich family as he was a baseborn child. So Ross has ancestors from Cambridge's rival city like I do.

I did a family tree for a family from a BOOK (they were actual people), had it on A*** as private tree so I could do the census look-ups, and someone contacted me to ask how I was connected 

[pinefamily]

Reviving this thread, you know you are addicted when you click on a post on Rootschat when you see a surname or place from your tree. Just in case..... 

[jaybelnz]

YES PF!!   And when you look at the surnames under members posts, and send people PM's when one of your own names shows up!

[pinefamily]

Me too, Jeanne. Unfortunately with no success yet. 

[jaybelnz]

Nor me 😰

I also put surnames and/or place names into the wee Rootschat search box- usually only found my own posts!  😄

Have occasionally found someone researching the same family name, but usually a different branch, and nothing comes of it!

[pinefamily]

I'm not even that lucky!
I'm not sure I want to find other researchers though, because I have had trouble in the past with someone who had an extensive tree with "links" to mine. However, I had looked at the original PR's and found that their link was wrong with a juvenile death. This hasn't stopped them spreading this error across the net, with others obviously copying their tree.

[jaybelnz]

That's a real hard one isn't it - I suppose the only consolation is that it's not your tree they're copying!  But is still very annoying when you see something in print about your family that you know is absolutely not correct, and you the have documentation to prove it!

I got really annoyed about one like that, until I realised that I had in earlier years, been convinced that I was on the right trail with that same person.  It wasn't until more experience and further research gave me more evidence on that family, that I changed tack!

Isn't it amazing though how one little something passed down, or a wrong entry taken as gospel by another, can really mess things up!

[pinefamily]

And this one wasn't even part of the green leaf brigade, at least not to start with. I see plenty of trees on Ancestry now that have the same mistake. I am confident in my findings, but if I were ever proven wrong with this, or any other piece of research, I am big enough to admit it.

[3sillydogs]

Reviving this thread, you know you are addicted when you click on a post on Rootschat when you see a surname or place from your tree. Just in case..... 

So true, guilty as charged.......

It is easy to follow a wrong lead, especially with similar names and surnames and childrens names popping up.  The same family can have parents and children that seem to "fit".  Check and double check don't just accept