You know when you're obsessed with FH when...

[Charlesworth]

When I was a kid, waiting for the bus to go home from school I used to entertain myself by reading all the gravestones in an old cemetary by the bus stop - that had to be a warning sign...

you know you're obsessed with FH when.... you get upset with family members who aren't interested, and can't see WHY they aren't interested!!

[stonechat]

When someone mentions they are interested in their family history,and you then dominate the conversation for at least half am hour with you latest research/interesting anecdotes/details of your brickwalls

[Sharon01]

When you toss & turn all night seeing census returns, bmd's and then suddenly wake up thinking about one of the people you have been researching and can not get back to sleep for hours.

Or does that only happen to me.

Sharon

[Charlesworth]

Nope, that happens to me too!  And if thinking about them doesn't keep me awake I just dream about them! 

[Maggie1895]

  When someone mentions they are interested in their family history,and you then dominate the conversation for at least half am hour with you latest research/interesting anecdotes/details of your brickwalls

Oh dear, that sounds horribly familiar...  I'm trying not to turn into a FH bore but I don't think I'm very successful

[coombs]

Finding a lovely theory on an ancestor is blown apart by brutal facts and you wake up that night feeling sick in the stomach and ruminating over it, gutted. Over someone who died 150+ years ago.

[tkgafs]

Upon hearing your aunt has died, the first thing you do is update her record in the database

[Just Kia]

Upon hearing your aunt has died, the first thing you do is update her record in the database

Is it awful that I did just that when my uncle died last year?
In fairness I hadn't seen him since c1993 and very rarely before that.

[BettyofKent]

I must admit to being guilty of that as well. M-i-L died during the night & I was more interested in which side of midnight so I could enter the correct date!! (We didn't get on, so that's my excuse)

However, OH's niece was left a young widow with two small children when her husband was killed in a road accident, & it was many months before I could bring myself to enter his death in the family tree.


Betty

Upon hearing your aunt has died, the first thing you do is update her record in the database

Is it awful that I did just that when my uncle died last year?
In fairness I hadn't seen him since c1993 and very rarely before that.