Is it really fair that I have to "hog" so many of the Murphy's laws??? :} INADAMS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >The public ceremony in which your distinquished ancestor participated and at > >which the platform collapsed under him turned out to be a hanging. And I have the photos to prove it! >:o > >When at last after much hard work you have solved the mystery you have been > >working on for two years, your aunt says, "I could have told you that". > Grandma has done that twice now. :/ > >You grandmother's maiden name that you have searched for for four years was on > >a letter in a box in the attic all the time. No ... it was on the back of her postcard photo. :| > >The will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic. SEE~ I *knew* it still exsited somewhere!!!!! > >Copies of old newspapers have holes occurring only on the surnames. Addendum: OR are filmed with the surnames in a fold. > >The keeper of the vital records you need has just been insulted by another > >genealogist. > Usually me. :P Ok, I don't insult vital records keepers, but there is one who cringes whenever she sees me coming. Maybe it has to do with that family background that's been "hanging" over my head! ;) > >The one document that would supply the missing link in your dead-end line has > >been lost due to fire, flood or war. Or an over enthusiastic state archvist who cleaned out the courthouses and had records tossed in the landfill a few years back. :( (Don't believe me, ask the county historian who managed to save one book.) > The own clerk to whom you wrote for the information sends you a long > >handwritten letter which is totally illegible. That's MY fault -- I can't read Polish. > >None of the pictures in your recently deceased grmother's photo album have > >names written on them. Not a one. :''''''''( > >The 37 volume, sixteen thousand page history of your county of origin isn't > >indexed. THAT one just happened to me yesterday!!! > >You finally find your gr grandparent's wedding records and discover that the > >brides' father was named John Smith. Ok, so this didn't happen to me. The bride's name was James Jones. :P Sorry to have taken up bandwidth with this post ... guess I'm still grumpy about that unindexed book at the library yesterday. :} Diana TheCalmOne