You Might be a Genealogist if. . .

. . . you've ever gotten a message from a significant other that reads "Happy early anniversary- I renewed our ancestry.com subscription for another year!"

You might be a Genealogist if. . .

. . . you've ever thought of the birth of a new cousin as "making the next generation's genealogy."

Welcome to the family, baby Dylan!

You Might be a Genealogist if. . .

. . . you got a little jealous when your boyfriend wanted to hang out with a former flame, but you got INCREDIBLY jealous when your boyfriend received a copy of his great-grandfather's diary in the mail.

[It's got names and dates and places of birth, death, and marriage and religious conversion and military service for three generations. . . I'm drooling over this diary!]

You might be a Genealogist if. . .

. . .if you'd known before buying your new computer that you couldn't use the Ancestry.com Enhanced Image Viewer on a Mac, you might have stuck with a PC.

Genealogy Humor Thursday: You might be a genealogist if. . .

. . . the people you meet online are generally not candidates for dating or marriage. In fact, unlike those of your friends who use Match.com or eHarmony, you are often legally prohibited from marrying the people you meet on Ancestry.com. (However, I'm surprised to note that the laws prohibiting cousins from marrying are not as restrictive as I'd thought. Maybe you can marry one of those cousins who found you on Ancestry's Member Connect. I don't find that a particularly comforting thought, actually.)

Genealogy Humor Thursday: It's astounding how genealogy makes you think

I recently contacted someone who had posted on a surname list that he was researching Mulcahys from Pallasgreen, Limerick, Ireland. My Mulcahys, too, are from Pallasgreen, Limerick, Ireland, and I sent him a brief description of what I knew of the family to see if there was any chance we were researching the same family.

His response said he didn't think so, but he'd send me what information we had and see if maybe there was a link a generation further back than the one I'd been able to describe.

I then sent an e-mail to my uncle, John, explaining the situation and asking if he had any information about the family of Michael Mulcahy's father James. "It doesn't appear that we're closely related - he's not descended from any of Michael's siblings - but we'd like to look into Michael's aunts and uncles."

Then I stopped. Said Michael is my great-great-grandfather, which, if I'm determining the relationships correctly, would make us - if there had been a connection through Michael's siblings - probably 3rd cousins once removed. And I'd nonchalantly referred to such a cousinship as being "closely related."

Only a genealogist!

A Modern Genealogy Joke on Thursday!

Genealogists dilemma

A modern mother is explaining to her little girl
about pictures in the family photo album.

"This is the geneticist with your surrogate mother
and here's your father's clone.

This is me holding you when you were just a frozen embryo.

The lady with the very troubled look on her face
is your aunt, a genealogist."

Found here.

Genealogy Joke

From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

Genealogy Joke Thursday!

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A GENEALOGY ADDICT WHEN . . .
You brake for libraries. pretty much
You hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery. again
You would rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall. definitely
You would rather read census schedules than a good book.
You are more interested in what happened in 1697 than 1997. oh, everyone knows nothing interesting happened in '97
Moses, Dorcas, and Caleb are household names, but you cannot remember what to call the dog.
You can pinpoint Sewickely, McKeesport, Evans City, (PA) but can't locate your state capitol on the map.
You think every home should have a copier and a microfilm reader. duh
You know every register of deeds in the state by name, but they lock the doors when they see you coming.
You store your clothes under the bed, because your closet is full of books and papers.
All your correspondence begins "Dear Cousin." guilty
You have traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it documented and still don't want to quit.

Found here.

Top 10 Signs You're a Geneaholic

10. You introduce your daughter as your descendent.

9. You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though you're related.

8. You can recite your lineage back 8 generations, but can't remember your nephew's name.

7. You have more photographs of dead people than living ones.

6. You've ever taken a tape recorder and/or notebook to a family reunion.

5. You've not only read the latest GEDCOM standard, you understand it!

4. The local genealogy society borrows books from you!

3. The only film you've seen in the last year was the 1880 census index.

2. More than half of your CD collection is made up of marriage records or pedigrees.

1. Your elusive ancestor has been spotted in more different places than Elvis!

Found here.

I'm having a blast looking up genealogy jokes, and I think I might make them a regular feature - stay tuned for future installments of Genealogy Joke Thursday!