Thursday, April 19, 2007

Top Ten signs that you ARE a Geneaholic

10. You introduce your daughter as your descendant.

9. You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though you're related.

8. You can recite your lineage back eight generations, but can't remember your nephew's name.

7. You have more photographs of dead people than living ones.

6. You've taken a tape recorder and/or notebook to a family reunion.

5. You've not only read the latest GEDCOM standard, but you also understand it.

4. The local genealogy society borrows books from you.

3. The only film you've seen in the last year was the 1880 census index.

2. More than 1/2 of your book collection is made up of marriage records or pedigrees.

1. Your elusive ancestor has been spotted in more different places than Elvis!

This was found at http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~bibblineage/humor.html.

1 comment:

Nikki - Notes of Life said...

Nice one :) I'm actually correcting "9. You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though you're related." as this Thursday I'll be meeting a long lost cousin after months of emailing! :D