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

[Berlin-Bob]

Keep 'em coming !!! 
If I find any new ones I add them to "Today's thought" in DBSIG and SIT 

Bob

ps a tip, if you want to read through the whole topic -> click on "print" - you can then read the whole topic in one window (or tab)

Access:
Click on the Reference Library link at the bottom of any page.
Click on DBSIG or SIT in projects menu.

[Nanna52]

I showed my doctor death certificates.  When he read them he just nodded and then looked at my grandmothers doctor and said show this to my wife (reception), she worked for him.  Wife's comment was ' oh he was a grumpy old B.'


Added.

When the crossword puzzle clue is 'resting places' you think of cemeteries, grave, tomb, then find out the first letter is B and the answer is beds.

[coombs]

Watching TV shows and characters with surnames that are of ancestors. Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders for instance, his surname is very common in the Yarmouth area of Norfolk, maybe his ancestors came from there. And a distant relative of mine married a Barnaby in Yarmouth. I could say Tom and John Barnaby in MM are distant cousins of mine lol.

75% of your CD collection is of marriage records, poor law records, census records, parish registers and electoral registers.

Looking at paperwork at work and thinking it is a census form or birth certificate.

Filling in the 2011 census and omitting my middle name, so my descendents dont have it easy 100 or so years down the line.

[DavidG02]

Nice coombs. Not sure I couldnt do the 'omit middle name'.

But the name one is true. I am in HG Wells Invisible Man  Chapter 8


I am also a famous author

[coombs]

Why should they have it easy after all our hard work trawling through reams of parish registers, census records and such.

More addictions is researching the areas my ancestors lived in, even where they may have drunk or shopped. Even to researching neighbours of ancestors, sometimes they registered and ancestors death.

[jaybelnz]

When you sit up in bed half the night with your ipad because you live in Tomorrowland and the Rootschat boards come to life when you should be sleeping!  Well, somebody might have answered one of your posts while you were sleeping, and you better have one more check  - just in case it's that miracle find!

And you know you've spent all night at it when you hear birds chirping in the tree outside your bedroom window!

Jeanne

[Flattybasher9]

You get scunnered with the dead ends, so you start to name churches, houses, villages, harbours, bridges and big-wheels for Cazza. 

Regards

Malky

[lizdb]

You get scunnered with the dead ends, so you start to name churches, houses, villages, harbours, bridges and big-wheels for Cazza. 

  

And in severe cases, even dogs!

[Rishile]

My most severe case - one of mine was in service and worked for two brothers and their families.  I investigated the brothers discovering they owned a carpet business.  I was almost in tears when I found out they went bankrupt shortly before they were due to retire. 

And they weren't even mine!!   

Rishile