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

[millymcb]

You know you are addicted to genealogy when you only read historical fiction and check the dates against your ancestors to see which ones would have lived through whatever years the book is about.

Milly

[aghadowey]

.. and keep hoping one of your ancestors, or at least the place they lived, will be mentioned in the book 

[marcie dean]

Or that the author has done their research properly which helps clarify the era of your own research.


Marcie

[Wiggy]

.. and keep hoping one of your ancestors, or at least the place they lived, will be mentioned in the book 

And once they were!!!!   

[coombs]

I have become so addicted that I even want to access electoral registers for ancestors. My 2xgreat grandfather died in 1927 and his last address was a terraced street in the middle of Oxford. He was 75 and it looks like he was living with his son. I am desperate to know how long he lived there before he died.

And then finding the date of death of my ancestor who emigrated.

[Alexander.]

I'm not addicted...well there was the time when I was at my great aunt's house, and while she was in the kitchen getting tea and biscuits, I took a quick tour of the sitting room, pulled out my camera and took photos of the old pictures on her wall. As I saw the tea tray came around the corner, I just had time to slip the camera back in my pocket. Not that's she'd have minded I was taking pictures, I was just too embarrassed - I saw her start to roll her eyes at about the fifteenth question I asked her.

And then there was the time when we were driving through the village where my granddad's parents came from...I had my eyes peeled for anything to do with the name Frecknall. Just as we were going around the corner I saw a sign that I thought said "Frecknall Close". So to everybody's annoyance we turned around and went back. You can't imagine my disappointment when I saw the sign actually said "Foxhall Close".

When I go to the UK in August the top thing on my list is "Trip to Nottingham Archives" then churchyards. And visits to family and friends are arranged around that. What would they say if dead people were higher up on the list than them??

Ok, I'm addicted. I suppose it's good to come to terms with this sort of thing. 

[Cal241]

I am so addicted.. random grave yards thrill me... driving past old building get me thinking about who lived/worked there... looking above modern shop fronts imaging what was there before .. yes I am addicted

[eadaoin]

I live about 1/4 mile from an old graveyard - I pass it almost everyday walking from the shops.

I always look at it longingly, wishing I had some ancestors there (instead of in inaccessible places miles from where i live!).
Mustn't moan - quite a lot are buried in various Dublin and Wicklow graveyards - it's the others!

eadaoin

[Deb D]

 

Which graveyard, eadaoin?!?!