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    1. [HCGS] You Know You Are Addicted When:
    2. Ethel Swiger
    3. Does this describe any of you? It sure does me. Genealogy-You Know You Are Addicted When: by Cindy Carman You can't pass a cemetery without stopping to see if one of your relatives is buried there. There's a microfilm reader installed in your bathroom You call traveling 10 miles to the shopping mall a lengthy trip but call a 100-mile trip to a cemetery a quick jaunt. You spend more time in the county courthouse than your local trial lawyer. You ask every person you meet the last names of their grandparents. You have a massive collection of articles in which your surname is mentioned only once. You have carpal tunnel syndrome from cranking microfilm reader handles. You can recite the day, month, and year of your great grandmother's birth but can't remember your own spouse's birth date. When someone says they have a new Chicago CD you think they are talking about a vital records CD for Chicago, IL. More than half of the photographs in your photograph albums are of dead people. When someone asks you if you've seen any of the newly released films you think they are talking about the newly released Federal Census films. You can remember things that happened 100 years ago but can't remember what happened yesterday

    03/13/2003 01:41:25