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

[Rosinish]

Only recovering addicts would actually admit their addiction.

I would disagree with that on the basis that it is ONLY addictions which are frowned upon such as Drugs, Alcohol, Cigs etc. where people would deny it although know within themselves they are addicted.

I'm addicted to Genealogy but I know it won't put Joe Soap off me so yes I admit it but others with addictions such as Drugs would not admit it for fear of being treated differently or even ignored.

(My personal view) 

Annie

[Rosinish]

This posted on my FB page today.  It so looks like my download folder

3SD..............So it's you who has hacked into my comp     

Annie

[coombs]

You constantly walk to and from the microfilm and fiche machines, make them whir, and then have to sigh quietly when the one you want was rewound backwards, so that the scans are reading backwards, if you get my meaning. Some of the reels were rewound the wrong way.

[3sillydogs]

This posted on my FB page today.  It so looks like my download folder

3SD..............So it's you who has hacked into my comp     

Annie

 

[Rosinish]

You know your addicted when you come across someone with an accent from the area of your ancestors....ask them if that's a Newcastle (or whatever area) accent & when they say "yes"...you proceed to ask them if their surname is "whatever the surname is you're researching" & if they say "NO"...you ask if they know anyone by that surname in that area  .........

The names in my tree must be unique as no-one from the mentioned areas has ever heard of any of my surnames 

Annie

[Sinann]

You know your addicted when you come across someone with an accent from the area of your ancestors....ask them if that's a Newcastle (or whatever area) accent & when they say "yes"...you proceed to ask them if their surname is "whatever the surname is you're researching" & if they say "NO"...you ask if they know anyone by that surname in that area  .........

The names in my tree must be unique as no-one from the mentioned areas has ever heard of any of my surnames 

Annie

This happened to me years ago, with the man sitting next to me on a bus in Dublin, each time this man heard an accent from Kildare he asked the person if they knew where Blacktrench was, not only did I know the place he was trying to find but we were related, I got his address and sent him the details my mother supplied. Sadly I left his address in my wallet which was pinched a few months later, he had replied but hadn't put his address on the letter.

[coombs]

Again, feeling like your life is over when you are back to square one after finding a very inconvenient burial or marriage of someone who you thought was an ancestor. You think he must be your rellie as he did not marry in the parish of baptism. You then hear alarm bells ringing when you find a marriage to a different spouse in another parish in the county, which is not your ancestral parish, and worry, you Google the parish, hoping it is the opposite end of the county but no, it is a neighbouring parish. Lt Joe Kenda, a American former cop says he hates coincidences. I so do as well, they do happen I know but they are so annoying. Kenda says he will not stop until a case is solved, and he must have the same mind as me, just mine is genealogy.

[jbml]

You know you're addicted to genealogy when the purpose of your visit to Cambridge is NOT to admire the colleges and their beautiful gardens, or to take a trip along the Backs or up to Grantchester through the meadows, but to climb Castle Hill ... and your reason for climbing Castle Hill is not to survey the vista of the city from the ancient Norman castle mound, but to descend into a cellar and pore over ancient, dusty tomes ...

[patty38]

You hear a conversation about trees and assume its family trees, not the wood and leaf variety. Happened to me recently very embarrassing  .

Patty