Greetings, All !!! :) Thought you could ALL use a wry smile for the day !!! >;-) Feel free to add on more that you can think of !!! :) Enjoy !!! :) Best Regards, Linda K. Redwood. LAWS OF GENEALOGY 1. The document containing evidence of missing links in your research invariably will be lost due to fire, flood or war. 2. The keeper of vital records you need will just have been insulted by some other genealogist. 3. Your Great Great Grandfather's obituary states he died leaving no issue of record. 4. The will you need is in a safe, on the RMS Titanic. 5. The ancient photo of 4 relatives, one of whom is your direct ancestor, carries the names of the other 3. 6. Copies of old newspapers have holes occurring only on last names. 7. You learn that Great Aunt Matilda's executor just sold her life's collection of family genealogy material to a flea market dealer in New York City. 8. No one in your family tree ever did anything noteworthy, always rented property, was never sued, and was never named in any will. 9. Yours is the only last name not found among the 3 billion in the Mormon archives. 10. Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value of the data recorded. 11. The critical link in your family tree is named "Smith". 12. The 37- volume, 16000-page history of your county of origin isn't indexed. 13. Your ancestor is ALWAYS on the page of the microfilmed Census Reports that is mangled, burned, torn, in essence, totaly unreadable !!!! 14. Or worse, if you are able to locate your ancestor on the microfilm, the handwriting is so illegible that it mystifies you into wondering if THAT even IS your long lost ancestor ?? 15. When you find a picture of your ancestor in complete military attire, then send off for the military record .... only to get the response back, "No Record". 16. Following up on a family legend you go off to the final resting place of your Great Great Grandfather, only to find out that there is No record & No proof that he really is buried there. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]