A break for Genealogists: Light thoughts for you

Can a first cousin, once removed, return?

Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite.

Crazy... is a relative term in MY family.

Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!

Genealogy: It's all relative in the end anyway.

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.

I trace my family history so I will know who to blame.

It's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine!

Life takes it's toll. Have exact change ready!

Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery!

That's strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN!

Every family tree has some sap in it.

*FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.

Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.

Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots.

Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need.

Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!

Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.

Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!

I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

*My ancestors are hiding in a witness protection program.

My family tree is a few branches short!

Research: What I'm doing, when I don't know what I'm doing.

Take nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records.

Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough,
we're all related. Especially German Russians!!!!

1.  You brake for libraries.
2.  You hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.
3.  You would rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall.
4.  You would rather read census schedules than a good book.
5.  You are more interested in what happened in 1697 than 1997.
6.  Jenkins, Murray and Godwin are household names, but you can't remember
what to call the dog.
7.  You can pinpoint Harriieysham, Hawkhurst, Kent, but you can't locate
your state capitol on the map.
8.  You know every register of deeds in the state by name, but they lock the
doors when they see you coming.
9.  You store your clothes under the bed, because your closet is full of
books and papers.
10. You eat on the patio all the time because your dining room table is
hidden by unsorted papers and there
are files in every chair.
11. All of your correspondence begins "Dear Cousin".
12. You have traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve,
have it documented, and still
don't want to quit.
13. You check out mailing lists looking for "real" cousins.
14. You're thrilled to get an e-mail with a BOOK attachment of part of your
family.
15. When you introduce yourself, you always add "I'm looking for dead
relatives!"
16. You eat at the computer.
17. You get withdrawal pains when you have to leave the computer.
18. Your computer stays on 24 hours a day and you check your e-mail every
hour.

1.  My family coat of arms ties at the back . . . is that normal?
2.  My family tree is a few branches short!  Help appreciated.
3.  My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
4.  Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
5.  My hobby is genealogy, and I raise dust bunnies as pets.
6.  How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE??
7.  I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap.
8.  I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.
9.  I'm searching for myself.  Have you seen me?
10. If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help.
11. Isn't genealogy fun?  The answer to one problem, leads to two more!
12. It's 1999.  Do you know where your Great-Great Grandparents are?
13. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
14. A family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots.
15. A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.
16. After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
17. Am I the only person up my tree?  Seems like it.
18. Any family tree produces some lemons, nuts & a few bad apples.
19. Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
20. FLOOR:  The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
21. Gene-Allergy-It's a contagious disease, but I love it.
22. Genealogists are time un-ravelers.
23. Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek!
24. Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
25. "Crazy" is a relative term in my family.
26. A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.
27. I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
28. I should have asked them BEFORE they died!
29. I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days
30. I'm always late.  My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower
31. Only a genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress
32. Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality
33. Heredity:  Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
34. It's a poor family that hath neither a lady of the evening nor a thief.
35. Many a family tree needs trimming.
36. Shh! Be very, very quiet . . . I'm hunting forebears.
37. Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
38. That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
39. I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes
40. Genealogists live in the past lane
41. Genealogists do it generation after generation . . .
42. Cousins marrying cousins:  Very tangled roots!
43. Cousins marrying cousins:  A non-branching family tree
44. All right! Everybody out of the gene pool!
45. Do I hear the rattle of Chains?
46. Always willing to share my ignorance . . .
47. Documentation . . . The hardest part of genealogy
48. For a reply, send a self-abused, stomped elephant to . . .
49. Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
50. Genealogy-will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
51. That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards
52. I looked up my family tree . . . there were two dogs using it.
53. I researched my family tree . . . apparently I don't exist!
54. SO MANY ANCESTORS . . . SO LITTLE TIME

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