In a message dated 07/02/98 11:45:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mcollins@sfths.sft434.k12.ks.us writes: << I know this has naught to do with Genealogy, but the list is slow, so It doesn't hurt! >> Hi Marcia and list, Here are a bunch of tag lines that are fantastic, I think (and some are so true!): "Crazy" is a relative term in MY family 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 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! Aunt Grace's surname was not GEDCOM Biochemists wear designer genes Bring out your dead............. 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! Death is just nature's way of dropping carrier Do I hear the rattle of chains? Documentation....The hardest part of genealogy Does that run in your family? 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 Everybody wants to be on the Mayflower Everybody's ancestors could not fit on Columbus's ship Evolution is God's way of issuing updates Cleaning out the gene pool, one at a time Collecting dead relatives can be "stinky" FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records For a reply, send a self-abused, stomped elephant to... Gedcoms eaten by the Net 273 Mail Muncher<tm> Gene-Allergy - It's a contagious disease, but I love it! Genealogists are like monkeys, always in the trees Genealogists never marry first cousins, unless...... Genealogists are time unravelers Genealogists do it generation after generation.... Old genealogists never die, they just lose their census Genealogists live in the past lane Old genealogists never die, they just haunt cemeteries 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 Genealogy Lotto XXXXXXXXXXXX (Scratch here to reveal ancestor) 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 1996. 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 My skeletons are rhythmically impaired and can't dance Old Italians don't die.....they HIDE! 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 passenger ship 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! 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! Was Uncle Fester *REALLY* AC/DC? Were you born with that? What do you mean your wife's not ITALIAN? What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired? What do you mean my family tree has root rot! Who said Russia? I said she was Gyno-American! When I searched for ancestors, I found friends! When marriage is outlawed only outlaws will have inlaws 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! Yikes! My genes are faded and full of holes! Success in searching, Patty Smith Barry~Cronin~Duke~Gorden~Haushalter~Herrmann McLeod~Murray~Norman~Schmidt~Schroeder~Shepherd •~•~•~>Visit My Genealogy Links Page<~•~•~• Tuffsearch's Ancestors' Attic http://members.aol.com/Tuffsearch/Genealogylinks.html •~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•