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

[Burrow Digger]

I never had any interest in going to graveyards and trying to read headstones. I have never needed to do that!!

Not since 1999 when my parents home city in New Zealand placed all their burial records online and I only need to type in the name and the dates and I get ALL the details on my screen!!! That has been a GODSEND. Now I use that information in place of death certificates. LOL

The NZ BMD online database is very good as well!!!!

[Burrow Digger]

DGIBBINS -

I am also a famous author

Are you the David Gibbins who writes the Jack Howard Marine archaeology books? The first one of yours I ever read was Atlantis. I LOVED it!!! I have read several others as well. They are BRILLIANT!!!!

[coombs]

Obsessed with genealogy is finding a character in Emmerdale Farm from years ago who was a Yorkshireman, Tom Merrick, having a Shropshire and Staffordshire surname and even researching Merricks in Yorkshire in 1861, and most of them were from Shropshire, Oxfordshire or London.

And yes, even researching surnames of Harry Potter characters or surnames like Trotter for Only Fools And Horses.

[DavidG02]

You are still waiting for the paperless office as you look at all your PAPER files,post it notes and scraps that you hurriedly scribbled on when having that coffee and remembering a 3am thought.

[DavidG02]

DGIBBINS -

I am also a famous author

Are you the David Gibbins who writes the Jack Howard Marine archaeology books? The first one of yours I ever read was Atlantis. I LOVED it!!! I have read several others as well. They are BRILLIANT!!!!

I wish!!

Its a scary/odd feeling as you wander the bookstore with your head tilted to read the authors names and suddenly your own appears. You then have a brain freeze as you wonder if you DID write it but just forgot. Then pick up the book and its a good read.

I actually did try and trace his family back from Canada to see if there was the Bedford or Leicestershire link but haven't followed it up as much as I should.

I have never read a more intense and descriptive dive as one he portrayed under an iceberg. Gave me shivers - pun intended.

[Burrow Digger]

That's not you?? Drats!!!!   

Oh well... 

[patty38]

You fork out £9.25 for a death certificate for the son of your grandfather's sister because you've just found out from a newspaper report that he collapsed and died in Newcastle Bigg market aged 19 years and you just HAVE to know what happened. Can't wait for it to arrive.

Patty 

[StevieSteve]

Its a scary/odd feeling as you wander the bookstore with your head tilted to read the authors names and suddenly your own appears.

Especially when you see it in Russian, in a Moscow shop window

And especially, when you are asked in a pub whether you are that author, before they even know your name (which actually isn't that flattering as I am about 15 years younger)

Stephen K...

[jaybelnz]

... When you travel halfway across the world to visit the graves of your great grandparents, and birthplaces of your parents, houses they lived in etc, - then stand and cry when you actually find them! You take headstone photos of any headstone in that same cemetery that has one of your connected names on it, even though a connection hasn't yet been made to that particular person/people!   Being a small coal mining village in Ayrshire where both my great grandparents and their parents were born and reared, it's been a very handy resource to have! 

Jeanne