Adams County Genealogical Society

Genealogist's Disease

WARNING: Genealogy Pox (Very contagious to adults)

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has a blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls, hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes.

You Know You're An Addicted Genealogist

...when you brake for libraries

...if you get locked in a library overnight and you never even notice

...when you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery

...if you'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall

...when you think every home should have a microfilm reader

...if you'd rather read census schedules than a good book

...when you know every town clerk in your state by name

...if town clerks lock the doors when they see you coming

...when you're more interested in what happened in 1697 than 1997

...if you store your clothes under the bed and your closet is carefully stacked with notebooks and journals

...if you can pinpoint Harrietsham, Hawkhurst, and Kent on a map of England - but can't locate Topeka, KS

...when all your correspondence begins, "Dear Cousin,"

...if you've traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it all fully documented, and still don't want to quit

GENEALOGY

G - is for the gaps in generations

E - for the endless entries stands

N - names families from all nations

E - omits enchanted epochs from the clans

A - is for accurate age of all relatives

L - means lineage linking at its best

O - opposes apathy and all procrastinations

G - give Galahad gems we search with zest

Y - yields yester-years we view with admiration

Put them all together, they spell Genealogy,

A word that means enchantment plus to me!

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