To All, My wonderful, long suffering, spouse and children will agree whole-heatedly with this. Thanks for sharing. Bill Mattheis -----Original Message----- From: Marilee Multhup [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 6:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [KYJOHNSON] Genealogy Pox Hey Bill, You need to add this one, if you don't already have it. Marilee Faith Poplin wrote: > > I recieved this on another list and thought i'd share. > Faith > > As found in The Librarian's Genealogy Notebook by Dahrl Elizabeth Moore > ... > > Warning -- Genealogy Pox > Very Contagious to Adults > > Symptoms: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, and places. > Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has > no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records > at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at > mail carrier when he or she doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places > such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes > secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has > strange, faraway look in eyes. > > THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE! > > Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets > progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, > subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the > house when he or she can be alone. > > Remarks: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the > patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it. > > By An Anonymous Author > > ==== KYJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Comments or suggestions pertaining to this list may be sent to the listowner, Ann Lemaster-Applegate > [email protected] > Visit the Johnson County Historical Society homepage: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjchs/johnson.html -- Marilee Spradlin Multhup The Spradlin Branches http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spradlin/ Also researching: Blair, Selvage, Salyer, Hitchcock, Conley, Blanton, Harmon, and many, many more, in Eastern Kentucky, Johnson and Floyd Counties. ==== KYJOHNSO Mailing List ==== Comments or suggestions pertaining to this list may be sent to the listowner, Ann Lemaster-Applegate [email protected] Visit the Johnson County Historical Society homepage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjchs/johnson.html