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

[nanny jan]

I've started pricing things in "certificates"..........."oh, I could get 3 certificates for that!"


Nanny Jan

[sallysmum]

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

... you can't see the wood for the trees ... i.e. when the table is covered with 'trees', censuses, old photo's, certificates, cuttings, scribbled reminders, notebooks, camera ...

... and you HAVE to eat on your knee in another room !

Oh yes Lydart - we USED to have a table in our dining room - I wondered where that went!  And for ages I'd believed that I had to eat my tea off my lap because, because, well where did that table go!

Sallysmum

[KathMc]

You know you are addicted to genealogy when you start planning other people's trips around your genealogy interests.

One of my brothers is going to Ireland in July and I am mapping out the places he needs to go for research. At least he is a willing pawn. 

Kath

[stonechat]

I don't think anyone in the family is that keen....

However this is made up for by Rootschatters

There are some Record office I can't work out how to visit yet.

However Microfiche viewer comes soon,  that will open up a number of records I couldn't use before!

Woohoo, will be in my element

Bob

[janescroft]

 
Hi everyone! I think I am addicted to genealogy, but more so since finding this site! I only joined last weekend, but thanks to all the help you lovely people have given me, my line at 10.30pm to my husband of, "I'll come to bed in a minute- I just want to confirm this birthdate!" has turned into, "Gosh! it's 3.30am! Well, just one more search won't hurt!"

[Cal241]

............. someone mentions a place and you say 'my ancestors in 1841 came from there !!!' and it is no where near where you live near now and have living relatives nor have you been there 

............. you burn your dinner coz you have to look up that 'extra' fact !!

...........  you tell your kids to go away when they want to go on msn/ want feeding etc 

& sadly when grave yards/libraries/ museums become the PLACE to be 

Cal 

[Paul E]

I absolutely LOVED this - a warning from an Uncle to his nephew written as the preface to a family history he'd written:

My dear William:

At the present lustrum of your life you are, and should be, supremely indifferent to your ancestors. They are dead and gone and that's an end on't. Your utmost powers of receptivity are properly absorbed by vital considerations. "Dead uns are nit"—as you would put it. In presenting you the following notes I ask not that you consciously attempt to change your present attitude. Inevitably there will come a time when these records of your forebears will have for you at least a passing interest. To you at that time I dedicate them. I hope, indeed, the time will never come when the pulse of glorious life will beat so slowly that you can afford to devote it to genealogical study. A lonely and a sterile life alone can find sufficient satisfaction in the dry-as-dust occupation of delving into dreary records to find a name, a mere name, the date when the name was born and died, the date when the name married another name, and the dates of all the other names that went before and came after.

Hoping to save you from so deplorable an expenditure of vitality, I, not inappropriately, present to you the names of many of the men and women who are responsible for your existence.

Wise words, indeed!

Paul

[millymcb]

Hello everyone - I'm new(ish) to the the site and just thought I'd pop into the Common Room to say "hi" to you all.   

I knew I was addicted when the control button fell off my keyboard from too many cut and pastes of various bits of census info "just in case I might need it later".

 

[stonechat]

.... when the Family History Folder is the largest on the computer


Bob