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WARNING....GENEALOGY POX; [very contagious to adults] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS:------------- Continual complaints as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries, courthouses and internet, Has compulsion to write letters and send e-mail. Swears at mailman when he doesn't stop and leave mail. Frenquents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to [him or her] self. Has strange far away look in eyes. --------------------------------- TREATMENT:--------------- Medication is useless. There is no known cure. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogy magazines and be given a quiet corner in the house where he or she can be alone. REMARKS: ----------------The unusual nature of this disease is...the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she seems to enjoy it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Right on target! But look at all the nice people (living of course) you meet and all the friends you make!

ANOTHER GEM LINDY lol sandra

Lindy,any suggestions to how long the symptoms last? I keep getting asked when will it be finshed,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I recognised the symptoms immediately Lindy,absolutely brilliant! Regards William Russell Jones Cefn Mawr Wrexham.

Lol...I think that we are all hooked for life! Nobody in my family is interested and my dear old Mum tells me straight out that she does not want to know. That's because there are soooooooo many skeletons and I have already dug up a few. Lindy;-))

Hi Lindy, how are you on this lovely day? As you know, I'm only a couple of months into this hobby but am totally hooked! I really feel like I belong now, because I've found living rellies (thank you, thank you!), illegitimate ancestors, ladies who lied about their ages, and now this morning an undecipherably occuption on a marriage cert. So I'm a fully fledged member of the club now, especially as I have all the symptoms you've listed LOLOL. Nice to have some fun on here as well!! Love Mandy xx

Hiya Mandy, It's a beautiful day here as well and I am at peace with with myself, thank you for asking. I have been digging and chipping away for two years. Six months ago, I found out about another branch of the family. My maternal grandmother's father died in WW1, he had one brother who had nine children, two of them are still alive and in their eighties. I have made contact with a daughter of one of them and we have been filling each other in about family history. It is so sad as we come from the same town but my maternal grandmother's family wanted nothing to do with them. History has a way of repeating itself as my in-laws never approved of my husband's choice of a wife for the exact same reasons. Lindy;-)

Jean, I gave up trying to please them and pleased myself. By moving waaaaaay down south. Lindy;-))