You Might Be Addicted To Genealogy if…
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the philosophizer
Apr 24
You Might Be Addicted To Genealogy if… (1) 95% of your Friends List are new relatives that you found on facebook; you love them dearly and can’t wait to meet them. Meanwhile for the average facebook user 80% of their friends list consists of people that found them; they don’t care for them much and have no desire to hook up.
(2) When someone in the family dies you’re pissed off because you didn’t get a chance to interview them. Everyone else is deeply saddened they didn’t get a chance to say goodbye.
(3) You shamelessly joined this group for the sole purpose of finding more relatives.
(4) You can honestly say, “I knew a woman that had 20 children in 18 years; her husband fathered 3, her first cousin 1, her uncle 1 and the rest was her slave masters; all children had the same surname.”
(5) After a night of partying you tell your friends that your eyes are bloodshot, your head hurts, you feel nauseated and you are more confused now than the night before. All because you chose to skip the partying to go look at birth registry microfilm… for 5 hours!
(6) Everyone is dreading the upcoming family reunion because Milton who just got out of jail will be there; they feel its way too early to speak to him. They don’t want to say or do anything to upset him. You can’t wait to get there because you think no time like the present time to grill him about his grandparents.
(7) While your girlfriend is snooping through her friend’s friend list looking for hotties, you’re looking to see who shares your surname.
(8) After finding a hottie your girlfriend goes to google.com to check him out. You go to ancestry.com to check out his ancestors.
(9) You have at least on one occasion, stayed up all night trying to figure who the baby daddy was for someone’s gggm.
(10) While reading a tragic news story, you drop a tear or two and decide to start a movement to free the slaves; you forgot the paper is dated 1792.
(12) You joined the aviation group and you’re afraid of heights and would never fly a plane, but hey, the admin shares your surname; you might be related.
(13) While in a bar fight your friend shouts, “and your mama is on welfare!” You chime in, “yeah and your gggf… !”
(14) Your ailing grandmother is hospitalized. Everyone shows up with flowers, slippers and teddy bears. You show up with a tape recorder, notepad and a pen.
(14) Your ailing grandmother dies and everyone can’t wait for the Will to be read just so they can see the gold mine they’ve inherited. You can’t wait to dig through her photo albums, diaries, letters, heirlooms and old documents, then you want to see the Will only to see if grandma mentioned some relatives you might have not yet discovered; a genealogical goldmine.
(15) Every time you’re introduced to someone all you want to know is, “what’s your surname and what parish / country are you from.”
(16) You often nag your friends to interview their parents and grandparents, “before all that history is gone forever.”
(17) You often nag your friends and insist they make a Will because its important to keep all that property in the bloodline.
(18) Your friend tells you he just had a beautiful baby girl and .you think, “…another surname lineage shot to hell.”
(19) You’ve joined your surname facebook group, you have a facebook genealogy app and you are a member of more than three facebook genealogy groups.
(20) It wasn’t enough for you to join every genealogy site that exists, you had to go and start your own genealogy blog / website / faceboook group…
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