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

[Wiggy]

Heitch
Yes it was and yes they are!!
People used to think I was morbid bringing my children to graveyards
It helped them with:
Map reading- obviously
History - again a bit obvious
Geography - finding their location!!
Maths - if that grave is ref# A56 242 how far to A56 263 or calculating ages
English - where old english was used and explanations of changes in letters and usage
Civics - through general respect of the property
and this is long before you find the long lost dead relative that teaches the Realism of death being a part of life!!

Brilliant - please may I steal this one!!!   

Wiggy

[DeeBoneham]

I cant pass a church graveyard or cemetary without wondering whether there are some commonwealth war graves in it!!!!
Dee

[Carmela]

I knew I was addicted when I went to see my doctor - who has a very unusual name - and while he was examining me I asked him if he'd ever thought of researching his familytree !!

Floss, you are not alone. I have done it twice!!  In one case, I even told the doctor
that he probably had Huguenot ancestors.

Carmela
another hopeless addict

[heitch]

Heitch
Yes it was and yes they are!!
People used to think I was morbid bringing my children to graveyards
It helped them with:
Map reading- obviously
History - again a bit obvious
Geography - finding their location!!
Maths - if that grave is ref# A56 242 how far to A56 263 or calculating ages
English - where old english was used and explanations of changes in letters and usage
Civics - through general respect of the property
and this is long before you find the long lost dead relative that teaches the Realism of death being a part of life!!

or maybe this was me trying to justify my addiction!

Love it   Classic line from my daughter today.....(we missed a bus so had an hour to spare...graveyard across the way )
she started crying, saying that "I miss all these people"
Me, "don't be silly, you did'nt know any of them"
4 year old daughter, "but someone knows them and they miss them so I can be sad"

[myluck!]

a little off addiction topic but Heitch..

My little boy when he was about 7 was asked if he was sad surrounded by dead people by a stranger in a cemetery (an older lady who obviously thought I shouldn't have my kids there and was going to show me why!) He looked at her really intently and told her that there were no people there!! She looked amazed and he continued as if she was ignorant of the fact and told her that they were all happy in heaven only their bones were left under the ground and that was why we couldn't build houses there!!!

[Redroger]

When you get up at 5.30am to go to a record centre on a three hour journey that before Dr. Beechings rail cuts took under an hour!

[marcie dean]

more anecdotes please myluck.

Your son has a very enlightened attitude to life and death.   Give him a kiss from me and say that I hope he does not mind but I find his quips very funny and heartwarming.

marcie

[LizzieW]

Classic line from my daughter today.....(we missed a bus so had an hour to spare...graveyard across the way Wink)
she started crying, saying that "I miss all these people"
Me, "don't be silly, you did'nt know any of them"
4 year old daughter, "but someone knows them and they miss them so I can be sad

Reminds me of my late father.  He would always look in churchyards, (as I do and did even as a child)  and if he saw a child's grave (as you can imagine there were many, especially in the old village churchyards), he would bow his head and say a prayer.  We lived near such a graveyard and he found a grave of a child called John.  We had no idea who this child was, but every time dad came to visit, he would go to the churchyard to see John, to say hello and say a prayer for him.

Lizzie

[DeeBoneham]

I go talk to "my" New Zealander whenever I am in Norwich so Im with your dad.
Dee