Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:01:25 -0600
From: "Cindy Stiene" <cstiene@traveller.com> Add to Address Book
Subject:genealogy humor!
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This was sent to me today----thought you all would enjoy it!
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> Humor only genealogists can appreciate:
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> My family coat of arms ties at the back .... is that normal?
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> A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.
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> My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated.
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> My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
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> Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
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> My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets.
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> How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE??
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> I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap..
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> I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.
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> I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?
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> If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help...
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> Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem, leads to two more!
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> It's 1999... Do you know where your-Great-G. Grandparents are?
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> A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
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> A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots.
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> A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.
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> After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
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> Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it.
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> Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.
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> Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
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> FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
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> Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but I love it.
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> Genealogists are time unravelers.
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> Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... I seek!
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> Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
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> "Crazy" is a relative term in my family.
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> I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
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> I Should have asked them BEFORE they died!
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> I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days.
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> I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower.
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> Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress.
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> Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.
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> Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
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> It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a
> thief.
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> Many a family tree needs pruning.
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> Shh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears.
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> Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
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> That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
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> I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes.
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> Genealogists live in the past lane.
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> Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!
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> Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree.
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> Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool!
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> Always willing to share my ignorance....
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> Documentation...The hardest part of genealogy.
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> Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
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> Genealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
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> That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards.
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> I researched my family tree... and apparently I don't exist!
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> SO MANY ANCESTORS...........................SO LITTLE TIME!
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> Laurie L. Wicks, aka. SWAngel
> Computer Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.csi-computers.com