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Title: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: nudge67 on Friday 10 April 09 13:14 BST (UK)
I was trying to find a collective noun for spinsters (I have eight elderly unmarried sisters at one point in my tree) when I came across The Collective Noun Page:

http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

If we can come up with a collective known for genealogists, we could submit one to that page.

Suggestions, please?

here's a few

A family of genealogists?
A root of genealogists?
A trunk of genealogists?
An obsession of genealogists?
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: MarkyP on Friday 10 April 09 14:14 BST (UK)
A Brickwall of Genealogists!
An Ancestry of Genealogists!
An Archive of Genealogists!

or how about a RootsChat of Genealogists!
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Friday 10 April 09 15:07 BST (UK)
Anyone who searched for BMDs at St Catherines or earlier at Somerset House, when manually searching the index volumes was the only way, will know that there is only one answer.

A Scrum of genealogists

David
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: chirp on Friday 10 April 09 15:40 BST (UK)
A few more suggestions:

cell
web
tree
clan
kith
tribe
genre
network

Since a lot of our hobby involves detective-type processes maybe we should consider:
a morse
a sherlock
this list could be endless .....


Chirp
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: geniecolgan on Friday 10 April 09 15:45 BST (UK)
With the publication of the 1911, I'd have to say there was...

an Exaltation of Genealogist  ;D
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: Mumsie2131 on Friday 10 April 09 18:25 BST (UK)
So far I think obsession is the most accurate  :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: wildtech on Friday 10 April 09 19:44 BST (UK)
A search
A root
A census
A record

I also thought of brickwall Marky P has that one as well
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: elin on Friday 10 April 09 20:33 BST (UK)
A parish of genealogists? 

Elin :)
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Post by: wotty on Friday 10 April 09 22:57 BST (UK)
A Frustration of Genealogists?
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Post by: Lydart on Friday 10 April 09 23:25 BST (UK)
A frustration of genealogists ?
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Post by: stoney on Friday 10 April 09 23:28 BST (UK)
A lineage of Genealogists?



Stoney
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Post by: little meg on Friday 10 April 09 23:37 BST (UK)
a brotherhood
a community
a fellowship

But having had a Rootschat meet at my place 2 years in a row  I think these are a bit mild for a gathering of genealogists  :o :o :o  ;D

Margaret
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: nudge67 on Saturday 11 April 09 09:30 BST (UK)
How about:

a pedigree of genealogists?
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: Evie on Saturday 11 April 09 10:45 BST (UK)
A descent of genealogists
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: Lydart on Saturday 11 April 09 11:16 BST (UK)
Perhaps Margaret should have called them 'A dunkeness of genealogists' by the sound of it !
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Post by: Tephra on Saturday 11 April 09 12:12 BST (UK)
Perhaps Margaret should have called them 'A dunkeness of genealogists' by the sound of it !


A 'dunkeness'............the mind boggles!!!!   
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: nudge67 on Saturday 11 April 09 12:42 BST (UK)
An Ahnentafel of Genealogists?
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: Lydart on Saturday 11 April 09 16:40 BST (UK)
Perhaps Margaret should have called them 'A dunkeness of genealogists' by the sound of it !


A 'dunkeness'............the mind boggles!!!!   


I must have been dunk !
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Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 11 April 09 16:56 BST (UK)


A forest..............all those trees.


Nanny Jan
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Post by: Evie on Saturday 11 April 09 17:08 BST (UK)
A skint of genealogists ;D
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Post by: crozier on Saturday 11 April 09 17:10 BST (UK)
....a puzzlement... ;D
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Post by: Necromancer on Saturday 11 April 09 17:34 BST (UK)
a Patience  ::)
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Post by: Paul Caswell on Saturday 11 April 09 17:52 BST (UK)
A Hunt of Genealogists?

A Transcription of Genealogists? - Which, when drunk, could be reused as a Mistranscription.  ;D

Paul
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Post by: cathaldus on Saturday 11 April 09 19:57 BST (UK)
What about:

    A friendship of RootsChatters!
    A retrospection of Genealogists!

Bill
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: Comosus on Tuesday 14 April 09 00:06 BST (UK)
A generation of genealogists!
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Post by: turramurra on Tuesday 14 April 09 03:34 BST (UK)
A cemetery of genealogists

Turramurra
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Post by: Chrisann on Tuesday 14 April 09 15:46 BST (UK)
How about a curiosity of genealogists? C x
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Post by: little meg on Tuesday 14 April 09 23:31 BST (UK)
Perhaps Margaret should have called them 'A dunkeness of genealogists' by the sound of it !

sorry, I haven't had any notification for this thread ::), so have not replied before.

Actually they were quite mild :-X
But everyone wants to tell their story so if we can steal the geese one and call them :
a gaggle of genealogists.

Margaret

Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: behindthefrogs on Sunday 19 April 09 11:26 BST (UK)
You will never receive notifications for the lighter side and associated threads,

David
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Post by: little meg on Sunday 19 April 09 23:39 BST (UK)
You will never receive notifications for the lighter side and associated threads,
David

Thats strange, cause I got notification for your reply  ;)  ;D

I was under the impression that we get notification for The Lighter Side, but no points added to posts, for Totally Of Topic, no notification and no points added to posts.
I have always had notifications for anything I have put in for the Lighter side.

Margaret
Title: Re: collective noun for genealogists?
Post by: pinot on Monday 20 April 09 23:07 BST (UK)
A look-up? An up-look?
                      Pinot   :)
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Post by: Keith Sherwood on Monday 20 April 09 23:17 BST (UK)
A gaggle of genealogists...
keith