ANCIENT BREAKING NEWS: SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE TAKING YOUR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH TOO SERIOUSLY

Signs You Might Be Taking
Your Genealogical Research
Too Seriously

(By Bettyanne Bruin)

1 -

You can’t wait for all of your living relatives to die

so they can become your next ancestors.

2-

You can’t wait to meet Adam and Eve.

3 -

You’ve already had corrective eye surgery

as a result of staring at those

micro fiche machines for so long.

4 –

You look forward to spending time with your dead relatives

while you dread spending time with your living ones.

5 -

You’ve threatened to harm anyone

who tries to update your pedigree charts.

6 -

You actually know how to spell the word, genealogy.

7 -

People avoid you at family reunions.

8 –

You look at everything in your life from a backwards

instead of a forwards perspective.

9 –

You’ve started making up family histories

for those ancestors you can't find histories for.

10 –

You’d rather attend a genealogy seminar in Elko, Nevada

than a two-week trip at a five-star hotel

on the coast of Maui.