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

[AnneMc]

I do go to the closet family history center to me and that is an 1  1/2 hour drive so when I go I go down for the full day.  But must say that driving in Canada is a bit easier than in the UK.  I can drive to Cranbrook ( where the center is) and some times I am lucky if I see a dozen cars on the road. And over here you can drive for miles and see no towns or houses etc.  Just driving through the mountains.  I must say that the highways are much busier in the summer time.

We could fly to Salt Lake but it is much cheaper to drive down there.  Also if you stay at the hotel next to the library you get cheaper rooms if you are there to do family history... Not sure if any of the hotels near by do the same thing.  We stay at the Salt lake Plaza as it is right next door to the library so if you want a break from researching then you just have to nip next door.  Not that I rest much when I am there. lol...

Cheers
Anne

[marcie dean]

  Was thinking along the same lines, possibly book a holiday to Ireland to do some family research for Hugh Smith and Mary Taggart and their ancestors.
I know where their descendants ended up.  Scotland, Renfrew and Argyll
Peebles and Ayr.
But it will have to be next August as that and December to Jan is all the time I get off, otherwise tooo busy.
marcie

[Redroger]

We moved south, one of the attractions was that I thought my research in Lincs and Yorks was effectively completed, and that archives I needed would be more readily accessible. What happened; more research to do in the above, new research to do in Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire moved archive from Trowbridge to Chippenham, Taunton difficult to reach by rail and the relocation won't help, however, on the positive side Dorchester is 45 minutes away, was impossible; Winchester one hour, and right outside station, Chippenham 1 hour quicker than it was, Kew one hour quicker, other London archives little changed, so on the whole I think I have improved my access times to the archives I need.

[anniedwyer84]

For me, it would be:

- First thing waking up in the morning, checking emails for genealogy leads.
- Getting excited when receiving death notices of family members.
- Bouncing off the walls when finding new family members.
- Breaking down brick walls.
- Meeting new friends who have the same addiction.

Annie

[toffeebear]

. . . you agree to a family holiday in a certain place as you had ancestors who lived there! Roll on Kent and Monmouthshire this year!!

[pinefamily]

I feel I should revive this thread.
Recently at work, I realized that in my daily duties in the warehouse, I have been mentally comparing appropriate part numbers and serial numbers with ancestor's years of birth or death.

My name is Darren, and I am an addict........

[jaybelnz]

Hail and well met Darren!

Like so many others have said - opening my email in the morning - see what's come in from the Northen Hemisphere!

Reading all the unread posts titles in here in case I see one of interest that may be a family of mine, or maybe something I could respond to for someone outside my own interests.

Doing the same searches almost every day for my brick wall people- ummm well, there might have been some new ones released overnight!

Very early in my research days, I must have been dreaming about my great grandparents.  My gggfather was a coal miner (as was my grandfather) and my grandmother had told me as a child, how her father had to get up for a first shift at about 4.30 am, and walk to the mine which took him about 1/2 - 3/4 of an hour.

His breakfast was porridge which would have been sitting at the side of the coal range all night, and my great grandmother would get up first to make up his piece box (lunch).

I woke up one morning, and because it was daylight, I panicked, and jumped out of bed to get his breakfast porridge and pack his Piece.  (Lunch box).

It wasn't until I actually got out to the kitchen that I realised I must have been dreaming I was my great Grandmother!  It was very spooky, and I often have a laugh about it! 

Jeanne

[coombs]

Looking at charts and graphs at work and for a second thinking they are a census form.
Checking Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch daily for new records.
Writing up biographies on ancestors and printing them off in book form.
My CD collection is 70% consisted of marriage records, census CDs and poor law records.
Making sure that while 100% proof can be hard to achieve, 99.9% proof is always achieved.
Getting excited when finding a new link and being unable to sleep that night.
Dreaming that my 4xgreat grandfather is still alive at 225 years old.

[ThrelfallYorky]

.... You are the one making sure that the family holiday takes place where there just happens to be a very relevant set of records that you've been wanting to see for some time ... and it dawns on other half when it is noticed that loose-leaf notebook, calculator, tablet and "family bag" are being packed first into the car.....
- And you try to look innocent when you suggest you'd "just like to pop into the ***** records office to check up on a few things - as you're in the area".