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

[andrewalston]

I was so excited but had to keep quiet in friends company less they think I was completely crazy   

We are all friends here - and we are all crazy too.   

[coombs]

I am doing a study of life the year 1929, and life in London and New York that year. Also researching my old village life that year. In 1929 many Londoners still lived in tenements and terraced housing/tenement blocks. Same for New York. Mid January 1929 in NY saw -13% weather so very cold. Most people in the tenements would have used the fireplace or stoves for heating in the dimly lit tenements. And the corridors would have been like ice boxes I would think.

[louisa maud]

I really don't care if people think I am crazy being into  genealogy  but they know where to come if they want any info, crazy or not.

LM

[coombs]

I have virtually zero interest in football, tennis, etc I seem to be a lone voice in the wilderness in having no interest in sport in my family/friends, and the same applies to me being the only one who is invested in genealogy in the family.

[rayard]

Same here coombs! We both ignore sports of any kind but thankfully we both enjoy genealogy. Try telling someone you like looking at gravestones!!
rayard.

[coombs]

Oh yes looking at every headstone in an ancestral church, when many of them are weathered and hard to read. The ones that are legible you hope it is an ancestor or a sibling/cousin etc.

[3sillydogs]

My family think I'm crazy and too obsessed with "dead people"   but when they want to know something guess who they come to for answers.

I have been doing this for the past  16 years, a novice compared to some, but I have loved every minute of the hours I've spent chasing down clues, even the ones that turn out to be the completely wrong ones.

[ThrelfallYorky]

All of us enjoy the chase, and the research, even if we do canter down lots of blind alleys - we meet a lot of new (old) people that way!
TY

[still_looking]

I am doing a study of life the year 1929, and life in London and New York that year. Also researching my old village life that year. In 1929 many Londoners still lived in tenements and terraced housing/tenement blocks. Same for New York. Mid January 1929 in NY saw -13% weather so very cold. Most people in the tenements would have used the fireplace or stoves for heating in the dimly lit tenements. And the corridors would have been like ice boxes I would think.

Tenement living isn't that different today, the stairwell here is still dimly lit and an icebox in winter though I can't see much of an argument for heating it.
S-L