To: <bigred@jps.net> > > >GENEALOGIST'S DISEASE > > > >Warning: Genealogy Pox (Very contagious to adults) > > > >Symptoms: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, and places. > >Patient has a > >blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for > >work of any > >kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and > >courthouses. Has > >compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. > >Frequents > >strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country > >areas. Has > >strange, faraway look in eyes. > > > >NO KNOWN CURE > > > >Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets > >progressively worse. > >Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical > >magazines and be > >given a quiet corner in the house where he or she can be alone. > > > >Remarks: The unusual nature of this disease is the sicker the patient > >gets, the more > >he or she enjoys it! > > > >Karen > >sumrg@jps.net > >http://members.xoom.com/KGDYER/