If the genealogical bug once bites you, you are a doomed man; and never again will you be happy except when attempting to trace the elusive ancestor. It has all the fascination of a game for one who loves it. It is like working out a chess problem or a crossword puzzle; but much more exhilarating, for the pawns in this game were once living human beings. You have ancestral charts in blank, which theoretically can be filled in completely with the names of your ancestors; and there is no elation akin to that which you experience when a long-sought forebear is discovered and an empty space on the chart becomes a name and an entity. -- Donald Lines Jacobus, 1930