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Re: You Know You've Been Hit With ......
« Reply #297 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 15:11 BST (UK) »
Quote from: dgibbins02 on Tuesday 21 July 15 10:07 BST (UK)
You cant walk past a Memorial or Plaque without going over the names for links


Or when you walk past you start thinking "I wonder when he married, and who his parents were?"
And then you look him up! ;D

I take a short-cut through a graveyard when I walk to the pub - and have "conditioned" myself to NOT take a notepad! ;D ;D
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #298 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 15:17 BST (UK) »
Or you stand all night at a locked cemetery gate, waiting for morning, 'caus you are just dying to get in.  :-\ :-\ :-\

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #299 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 15:37 BST (UK) »
When you start researching your friends grandparents etc. even when they've not asked you to, just because you can't break down your own brick wall.

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #300 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 15:42 BST (UK) »
You get up at 7am in the morning on holiday in London, Essex or Sussex so you can get to the record office as early as possible, leaving other relatives having to please themselves, then getting an ear bashing when you come back to the hotel at 8pm to be told "You spend all holiday researching dead people when we could have had a lovely day on the seafront". What getting into a big sweat and always wanting a drink?
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SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
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ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #301 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 15:48 BST (UK) »
When you live off only basics toast for two weeks to be able to afford one certificate :)

I'm not at that stage ...too scared the certificate would be a dud ... and I'd have to eat toast for another two weeks to buy the other one it could've been.
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #302 on: Tuesday 21 July 15 23:06 BST (UK) »
When you come into contact with someone who has a surname that is in your family tree and you ask if they have any connection to your line....or ask...."Are your Kirks from East Yorkshire?"
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #303 on: Wednesday 22 July 15 00:32 BST (UK) »
When you've to be up early in the morning, but you just have to post a reply on RootsChat at 12.30am ;D ;D. When the housework hasn't been done (again) cos there are all those recently-on-line Irish parish registers to be checked.  :)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #304 on: Wednesday 22 July 15 09:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: StanleysChesterton on Tuesday 21 July 15 15:48 BST (UK)
When you live off only basics toast for two weeks to be able to afford one certificate :)

I don't have a problem with affording that extra certificate, it's the justifiying it to my OH that's the problem...
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #305 on: Wednesday 22 July 15 09:42 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Braindead on Wednesday 22 July 15 09:02 BST (UK)

I don't have a problem with affording that extra certificate, it's the justifiying it to my OH that's the problem...
Just remind him that blood is thicker than water :)

I have no OH to justify anything to ... including the reason toast will have to be eaten for 2 weeks!
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Elizabeth Long/Elizabeth Wilson/Elizabeth Long Wilson, b 1889 Caxton - where are you?
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Seeking: death year/location of Albert Edward Morgan, born Cambridge 1885/86 to Hannah & Edward Morgan of 33 Cambridge Place.
WW1 soldier, service number 8624, 2nd battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
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