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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #468 on: Monday 18 July 16 18:32 BST (UK) »
Thought I would add a few more symptoms of "Genealogyitus".

You see a surname of a news reporter on TV or someone being interviewed and the surname sounds like a surname you are researching and think "You have just given me another spelling variant I had not though of before".

On trips out when doing the travelling you think "What registration district am I in now"?

At a RO you make the archivist break out in a sweat with endless requests for original documents.

You research the dead, and forget the living. And get demands from family saying "Where is my cup of tea"? You feel like jokingly saying "I have ancestors to research".
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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 #469 on: Thursday 21 July 16 17:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Monday 18 July 16 18:32 BST (UK)


On trips out when doing the travelling you think "What registration district am I in now"?


I So do that!!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #470 on: Thursday 21 July 16 17:29 BST (UK) »
This posted on my FB page today.  It so looks like my download folder ;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 #471 on: Thursday 21 July 16 17:43 BST (UK) »

I suspect it looks like all our download folders ;D

That's very good  :) :)
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #472 on: Thursday 21 July 16 17:54 BST (UK) »
Yes, my download folder looks just like that, but then I have at least 16 other folders with a similar set up (though some maybe not so large) - main folder then baptisms, marriages and burials as sub-folders for each of my four major lines.  Then there's my Missionary folder containing at least 200 images of his letters back to London  :o  Oh sh..  ::)  And then my folder for look-ups for other people, including at least 70 wills for one person.  Aaaaaargh!!!
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #473 on: Thursday 21 July 16 18:10 BST (UK) »

My download folder may look a lot like that, but I also have a whole folder with sub-folders and the Gedcoms for my trees on my Google Drive,(in case of hard drive failure on my pc it's happened before :-\ ;D)

and she whispers to BB that she also has a dedicated folder of other people's lookups that I have done over the years... ;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 #474 on: Thursday 21 July 16 18:22 BST (UK) »
Well, I just look on it as my having a back-up if their computer fails  ;D  I have no intention whatsoever to offer that information to others.  The missionary files are shared with my friend in South Africa (she paid), the wills were obtained at my local records office for a lady who paid for my photographic licence - there is no way that I would share that information with others.

And I'm sure I did ask you, 3sd, if I could forward the information you obtained for me on behalf of another  ;) ;)

Blimey - am I really that honest?  Yessssssssssssssssssssss  :)  I might have to have another glass!
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #475 on: Thursday 21 July 16 18:28 BST (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Thursday 21 July 16 18:22 BST (UK)

Blimey - am I really that honest?  Yessssssssssssssssssssss  :)  I might have to have another glass!

You and me both, perhaps too honest...  ::) ;D
I'll join you in another glass!!! ;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 #476 on: Thursday 21 July 16 18:30 BST (UK) »
Great, and not only that, we share the same name!!!   ;D ;D  Cheers!  :D :D
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY
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