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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #522 on: Thursday 22 December 16 15:48 GMT (UK) »
You're researching the parents and siblings of your 3 x g.g.uncle's 2nd wife because you can't break down your own brick wall.  :D

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #523 on: Thursday 22 December 16 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Sounds perfectly normal to me, Lizzie, but then I've just finished researching family trees for my third cousin's husband and his second wife  ;D
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #524 on: Thursday 22 December 16 22:09 GMT (UK) »
You're more interested in the grandparents & great-grandparents of someone you know  than in their children or grandchildren.
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #525 on: Thursday 22 December 16 22:36 GMT (UK) »
Sounds perfectly normal to me, Lizzie, but then I've just finished researching family trees for my third cousin's husband and his second wife  ;D

Normal for family history addicts!


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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #526 on: Thursday 22 December 16 22:44 GMT (UK) »
You quiz someone about their Family line when their surname is one that you have researched in your own family history.
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #527 on: Friday 23 December 16 09:00 GMT (UK) »
You prefer the company of 500 years of dead relatives to the current living ones  ;D
BETTS Brisbane, LEWIS Llangurig, PADFIELD Coleford, BUTTON Somerset, LERGESSNER Berlichingen, DONNELLY Tyrone, BETTS Suffolk, NEEDHAM Norfolk.

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #528 on: Friday 23 December 16 11:24 GMT (UK) »
When there are more photos of gravestones on the computer than there are of the grandchildren!
(I keep being told "Yes we will send some"!)
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #529 on: Friday 23 December 16 12:38 GMT (UK) »
When you start your Christmas Newsletter with
"There are no Births, Marriages or Deaths to report this year ..."
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #530 on: Friday 23 December 16 15:27 GMT (UK) »
You even research the basic details of the ancestry of celebs, esp the WDYTYA ones, on lines not researched in the show.
Researching:

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