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

[Redroger]

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. 

know the feeling,over 20 years now

[clairec666]

While watching the news...
Family member: "That lady's got an unusual surname."
Me: "It's more common in Kent."
Confused looks all round.

[pharmaT]

While watching the news...
Family member: "That lady's got an unusual surname."
Me: "It's more common in Kent."
Confused looks all round.

  A colleague was telling me about the birth of a baby and commented that he had a very unusual name.  I said actually it has been very popular around here since 1840 when x and y called their son that.  I haven't used the name to protect privacy of the baby and colleague.

[DavidG02]

When your elderly mother refuses your offer of buying her a DNA test



And you wonder if you can be there early enough to take a scrape before the undertaker gets there

 

[CarolA3]

Oooh David, you bad man ................... although if I'd been in the same country as my mother when she died, who knows?!

Back in the real world, I'm a big fan of the TV show QI and since discovering the name FRY on both sides of my family I've been trying to resist checking out Stephen Fry's ancestry.  Is that a sign of addiction or would it count as stalking

(I know he was 'done' on WDYTYA but wasn't that mostly about his mother's family?)

Carol

[clairec666]

You'll find a lot of us have done that, Carol. I got rather excited when the name Izzard popped up on my tree, but alas, no connection. Barbara Windsor is my current target.

[coombs]

You'll find a lot of us have done that, Carol. I got rather excited when the name Izzard popped up on my tree, but alas, no connection. Barbara Windsor is my current target.

And mine, thank to our mutual Lucking, Otley and Deeks rellies. I traced our Deeks line to Isaac Deeks born c1675 who wed in Glemsford, and Babs Windsor's Bures Deeks seem to not appear prior to the 1730s in their registers.

[KGarrad]

You'll find a lot of us have done that, Carol. I got rather excited when the name Izzard popped up on my tree, but alas, no connection. Barbara Windsor is my current target.

She's connected to my tree, too!
We are both related to John Constable; and my family were in Bures St Mary for many years.
The community centre there even has a "Garrad Room"

[clairec666]

Judging on similar rootschat posts, I reckon Barbara Windsor is the most "linked-in" person with rootschat members.

Coombs - if Suffolk parish records come online this year we can have a race to see who can find the Babs connection first!