Who Are You Researching?

[bekahsgran]

Thats the great thing about this site, everyone is so helpful, LONG LIVE ROOTSCHAT!

[Sisterjane]

Hi Andrew
Icant answer your poll because Istarted out after a vary close relation died and left a few unanswered questions that she would never discuss and woe betide you if you tried to broach the subject. So when my missus bought a computer i tried to find the answers and as we all know on rootschat you start out with a name and before long you wander off  completly from what you started out doing. Istill havent found the answer to what brought me to here but ive met loads of rootschat friends along the way and had many a good laugh with. I better stop now coz im Wanderiiiinnnggggg ... of the original subject
Joe

[ryan]

I'm researching every possible line of my entire ancestry, sometimes, I even go off hunting the ancestors of people who have married into my family several generations before my own birth. I'm one comitted family historian. Or am I just obsessed???

[Sisterjane]

  Totally obsessed mate you wont find many who trawl this site who are not. Just go to the stats page and see for yourself how long most of us spend on it
Joe...... LOL

[Renee]

I also must be a sad addicted Genealogist,because I do the same---while I'm on my main track----up comes a surprise  and there I go--off in that direction!

But-- I do love the chase!

Renee

[bedfordshire boy]

This site, and others like it, should be forced to carry a Government Health Warning - "Genealogy is addictive and can seriously damage your mental health"

[quizmaster]

I'm just like the rest of you. I am a serial obsessive. One problem attracts my attention and then I cannot rest until I've got an answer. And when I have, then I find something else to be obsessive about. At the moment, I'm trying to trace the nephew of one of my ancestors who was sharing their abode in the 1871 census. The reason for this obsession is that my gg grandfather moved to Yorkshire from Norfolk but neither of his known brothers did. The nephew was born in Hull, thus suggesting an as yet unknown sibling for my gg grandfather. Currently eagerly awaiting the birth certificate to prove it.

And then I will be on to something else. Probably tracing the parents of the magnificently named Hazelrigg Bullman in Newcastle for no other reason than I love the name. As previous posters have said, government health warnings should apply as my obsessions get more and more obscure (and to anyone else, totally boring). But I don't care.

QM

[bitty_matriarch]

Hi
I started out 5 years ago on my maternal line just out of curiosity, but I have since discovered, like a lot of fellow researchers, that it is so addictive that I go off in all directions at the drop of a hat, and can never resist just taking a peek at that extra new line, and off I go again in that direction, so I can't ever imagine anyone, with a real interest only doing one line. It couldn't be!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you find a new name you JUST HAVE to follow it, don't you?
OR AM I JUST A SAD ADDICTED GENEALOGIST? 

I know just what you mean    I started out in 1999 meaning only to research my father's family; now, I am researching all lines as new info comes to light and have a website to prove it

Have fun and keep up the good work - and remeber:
"Only a genealogist regards a step BACKWARD as PROGRESS!"

Regards.  Ann.

[4mywife]

god i must be sad just replying to this page i started off on my wife,s tree not doing very well there ,then my  dad,s tree[result]then my mum say,s what about my tree it just goes on and on