When looking up medical terms today I came across one listed as GENEALOGY POX.    SYMPTOMS: A continual complaint as to the need for names, dates and places.  Patient has blank expression, often deaf to spouse and chiodren.  Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses.  Has compulsion to write letters, swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail.  Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate areas.  Makes secret night calls.  Hides phone bill from spouse.  mumnbles to self and has a far away look in eyes. NO KNOWN CURE TREATMENT Medication is useless.  Disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse.  Patient should attend genealogy meetings, subsribe to a magazine and be given a quiet corner in the house where they can be alone.  The usual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient gets the more he enjoys it. That's us to a T Jackie Sullivan

Jackie Sullivan wrote: <When looking up medical terms today I came across one listed as GENEALOGY POX. > I have noticed one particular symptom that appears to be common to the Genealogy Pox and is especially troublesome to many sufferers: The patient "*Generates large stacks of paper that cover every known flat surface.*" It has been noted that the Genealogy Pox appears to be approaching epidemic proportions. Many thanks to Jackie for this delightful definition. Jean Copeland, Ohio

The trouble is that the Genealogy Pox is reaching epidemic proportions....and I can only see this disease getting worse as we all try to find out who we think we are...............as opposed to who we really are.. Kaye www.teapotgenealogy.com -----