You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....

[stonechat]

Also you look up people you or your wife used to know to if they married or died

[Lensmeister]

You are helping a large organisation  find dead footballers DOB and DODs while your family is on the backburner, but still look at ALL the other names in the Death Notices hoping to find a connection

I have a few Whitby players you can find mate LOL

[coombs]

You have to tell a relative that white Americans are not an ethnicity. Hilary Clinton was on The One Show and her DNA was said to be mainly English and Welsh. A rellie said "I bet she was thinking she thought she was supposed to be an American". I told her that white Americans are European in ancestry. Elvis' dad Vernon Presley was being interviewed once in 1956 when his son was by then really famous and Vernon and was told he had an old English name and he was surprised. He said "I never heard tell of any of my kinfolk coming over from anywhere. It seems we have always been here in America" He then said "Then again the English connection must have been a long way back". Some people do forget their roots. Babs Windsor was shocked when she found a Suffolk link in her East End ancestry. London was a honeypot for tens and tens of thousands of East Anglians once.

[pharmaT]

You have to tell a relative that white Americans are not an ethnicity. Hilary Clinton was on The One Show and her DNA was said to be mainly English and Welsh. A rellie said "I bet she was thinking she thought she was supposed to be an American". I told her that white Americans are European in ancestry. Elvis' dad Vernon Presley was being interviewed once in 1956 when his son was by then really famous and Vernon and was told he had an old English name and he was surprised. He said "I never heard tell of any of my kinfolk coming over from anywhere. It seems we have always been here in America" He then said "Then again the English connection must have been a long way back". Some people do forget their roots. Babs Windsor was shocked when she found a Suffolk link in her East End ancestry. London was a honeypot for tens and tens of thousands of East Anglians once.

I have to say I was surprised by just how many different places my ancestors came from.  I had known that my 2 grandfathers came from very different places before I started but I now seem to have covered most counties in Scotland and with the other half of my daughters tree a good number of English counties too.

[Yonks Ago]

sorry nothing to do with the "topic"


But!...someone may get a giggle

According to a report in Extra TV, genealogy experts say Donald Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton — the front-runners for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination — share a common ancestor from England 18 generations ago.

[LizzieW]

I would think many Americans share a common ancestor from England.

[Yonks Ago]

You know your addiicted to Genealogy

When you stand at your Great Grandfathers Grave and promise him a beer..if he will tell you where his Father is buried..

I may never find where my GG Grandfather is buried..but hope that DNA will help

Yonks

[myluck!]

maybe Yonks Ago if you bring him a beer he'll tell you!!!

You know you're addicted when your 9-5 job is nothing to do with genealogy but your colleagues give you genealogy queries from their friends and relatives!!!

[Yonks Ago]

My Luck,

knowing my mob..he will take the beer..and then not tell you

Yonks