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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #459 on: Saturday 09 April 16 14:32 BST (UK) »
You get a car insurance renewal form through the post and find that is second best and much less important to a birth cert you are anxiously awaiting for.

You get annoyed intensely by glaring errors in Anc trees. People born to parents who totally different surnames and maiden names, or to parents who died 100 years before.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
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
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #460 on: Saturday 09 April 16 14:34 BST (UK) »
When you get notified of a hint and find it referring to your own tree on another site ::) ;D
Paylet, Pallatt, Morris (Russia, UK) Burke, Hillery, Page, Rumsey, Stevens, Tyne/Thynne(UK)  Landman, van Rooyen, Tyne, Stevens, Rumsey, Visagie, Nell (South Africa)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #461 on: Saturday 09 April 16 15:12 BST (UK) »
When you're doing a course on Futurelearn and you've worked out the ancestry of Chris's 'Maria' just because she came from Dundee!  :-[
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FEARN, McKenzie, Stirling [brick wall], Robb, Wilson, Stott
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #462 on: Saturday 09 April 16 19:14 BST (UK) »
You type in a surname into a new search database for a certain surname and only get results from a family of that surname you have come across many times before and have no known connection to.

Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
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
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #463 on: Saturday 09 April 16 20:03 BST (UK) »
I Googled addiction and found-

"Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages in an activity (e.g., gambling, sex, shopping) that can be pleasurable but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work, ..."

As I do not ingest genealogy I can rule that part out which just leaves the "engages in..."

Now as I have never know life without family history (it formed part of my education and development as an infant) it cannot interfer with ordinary life, therefore I can confidentially state I am not addicted to genealogy it is simply part of my ordinary life and responsibilities.

 8) 8) 8)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #464 on: Saturday 09 April 16 20:26 BST (UK) »


Well put Guy, now if we can just convince the non-genealogists ;D ;D
Paylet, Pallatt, Morris (Russia, UK) Burke, Hillery, Page, Rumsey, Stevens, Tyne/Thynne(UK)  Landman, van Rooyen, Tyne, Stevens, Rumsey, Visagie, Nell (South Africa)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #465 on: Sunday 10 April 16 00:59 BST (UK) »
You know you're addicted to genealogy when Rootschat is your "go to" website, morning noon and the middle of the night! 
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #466 on: Sunday 10 April 16 04:41 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jaybelnz on Sunday 10 April 16 00:59 BST (UK)
You know you're addicted to genealogy when Rootschat is your "go to" website, morning noon and the middle of the night!

Yes :) 4:40 in the uk and i saw a message on my phone about new posts so had to catch up !!!
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #467 on: Sunday 10 April 16 10:39 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jaybelnz on Friday 08 April 16 23:52 BST (UK)
I also put surnames and/or place names into the wee Rootschat search box- usually only found my own posts!

Me too.... I get excited that some results have shown up, then realise it was me ;D

In other news, I've spent my week off work writing some extra code for my self-written family tree programme so that it accepts entries from the 1939 register. I've not been out much.
Transcribing Essex records for FreeREG.
Current parishes - Burnham, Purleigh, Steeple.
Get in touch if you have any interest in these places!
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