For all of you who like to search out their ancestors....Thought you might find a motto for your family searches...Enjoy ~THE COLLECTION~ A family reunion is an effective form of birth control A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots A great many family trees were started by grafting A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted. Alright! Everybody out of the genetic pool! Always willing to share my ignorance... Am I the only person up my tree - seems like it Ancestors were just people... Any family tree produces some lemons, nuts and bad apples At last a chance to make my skeletons dance! Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home. Biochemists wear designer genes C A U T I O N ! ... You have now entered the Genealogy Zone Climbing my family tree was fun until the nuts appeared! Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree Cousins marrying cousins: VERY tangled roots! "Crazy" is a relative term in MY family Death is just nature's way of dropping carrier Do I hear the rattle of chains? Documentation....The hardest part of genealogy Don't sit under the family tree with anyone else but me! Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? Every family tree has some sap in it Evolution is God's way of issuing updates FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records For a reply, send a self-abused, stomped elephant to... Gene-Allergy - It's a contagious disease, but I love it! Genealogists are like monkeys, always in the trees Genealogists are time unravelers Genealogists do it generation after generation.... Genealogists live in the past lane Old genealogists never die, they just haunt cemeteries Old genealogists never die, they just lose their census Genealogy - a search for the greatest treasures - our ancestors Genealogy - it's only an obsession after all! Genealogy - will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek! Genealogy...it's not a hobby, it's an obsession Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people Ghosts are merely unsubstantiated roomers Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE ?? I can trace my Taglines back 8 generations I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap I looked up my family tree...there were two dogs using it I researched my family tree... apparently I don't exist! I shook my family tree, a bunch of nuts fell out I should have asked them BEFORE they died! I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days I used to have a life, then I started doing genealogy I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand I'd rather look for dead people than have 'em look for me I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the Juneflower I'm no genealogist. ... Until this year I spelled it "geneOlogist!" I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me? I'm stuck in my family tree, and I can't get down If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help... Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem, leads to two more! It is hereditary in my family not to have children It's a poor family that hath neither a whore or a thief It's hard to believe that someday I'll be an ancestor It's 1995. Do you know where your great-grandparents were? Jeanealogy: the study of LEVIS and WRANGLERS Many a family tree needs trimming May the Saint of Genealogists bless you! My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! My family came on the Mayflower...or was it Allied? My family coat of arms ties at the back.....is that normal? My family tree is a few branches short! Help appreciated My family tree is lost in the forest My family tree must have been used for firewood My genes are so tight, they may stay with me forever My hobby is genealogy, and I raise dust bunnies as pets Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress Originality is the art of concealing your sources RELATIVES...People who come to dinner who aren't friends Remember, undocumented genealogy is mythology. Searching Shipping records? Simply naval gazing Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality Shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet...I'm hunting forebears. Elmer Fudd Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! So many ancestors...so little time! Sometimes I think my grandfather was in a government protection program. That's strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN! That's the problem with the gene pool: No lifeguard The gene pool could use a little chlorine! There is strength in our Roots They've said *you* are the fertilizer of your family tree! To a genealogist, EVERYTHING is relative! Try genealogy. You can't get fired and you can't quit! Warning!! There are no lifeguards in the gene pool! What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired? What do you mean my family tree has root rot! What do you mean my grandfather didn't have any children? When I searched for ancestors, I found friends! When marriage is outlawed only outlaws will have inlaws When there's a will, I want to be in it! When tracing ancestors, please stay within the lines. Whoever said "seek and ye shall find" was NOT a genealogist Why are there so many gnarled limbs on my family tree? With MY luck, my family tree has root-rot! Wow, half of my forefathers are women! Yikes! My genes are faded and full of holes! HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING !