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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #369 on: Friday 21 August 15 13:17 BST (UK) »
.... when you

1) Celebrate the addition of new records to ancestry or findmypast as if it's your birthday

2) Consider yourself an expert in what christian names were in fashion at any point in the 1800s!

3) Write your own computer programme to store your records
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #370 on: Friday 21 August 15 13:56 BST (UK) »
write your own progs  ---wow that would be great....

My filing system is driving me crazy at the moment...

I have  a system that only I will ever comprehend.!!!!!

so attempting to change it for my daughters to use. 

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #371 on: Friday 21 August 15 14:01 BST (UK) »
That's the problem - I started genealogy so I could share my interest with others, but still haven't managed to collate everything into a version others could understand!
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #372 on: Friday 21 August 15 14:20 BST (UK) »
You tell family about an ancestral find like you have won £100000 and get a "Very Good" reply and thats it, no more yet still have to listen to their everyday chatter on mundane things.

You find out your ancestor or a sibling of an ancestor spent time outside Europe, and find a passenger list and act like you have won £1000000.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #373 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:18 BST (UK) »
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3) Write your own computer programme to store your records
or write database applications for a well-known forum, so that others can find names more easily :)

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #374 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:20 BST (UK) »
Techy-genealogy-geeks of the world unite ;)
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #375 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:27 BST (UK) »
is that techy or tetchy (BIG PUN JOKE  ;D ;D ;D ;D)

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 ??? :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #376 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:31 BST (UK) »
Both !!!!!!

Working on it is "techy" but if it doesn't go right, then I quickly get "tetchy"  ;D

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #377 on: Friday 21 August 15 15:35 BST (UK) »
Hehe ;)

I've been out of the habit of programming for the last couple of years, but when I was tackling something complex I needed ABSOLUTE silence in order to concentrate. Woe betide anyone who interrupted...

So yeah, "tetchy" just about covers it...
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