This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_906587068_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > .....You Know You're Taking Genealogy Too Seriously If..... >********************************************************************* > >You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party with a >shovel. > >In order to put the "final touches" on your genealogical research, >you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples. > >You were instrumental in having "non-genealogical use of the genealogy >room copy machine" classified as a federal hate crime. > >Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical >records are stored. > >You decided to take a two-week break from genealogy, and the U.S. Postal >Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees. > >Out of respect for your best friend's unquestioned reputation for >honesty and integrity, you are willing to turn off that noisy >surveillance camera while she reviews your 57 genealogical research >notebooks in your home. The armed security guard, however, will remain. > >You plod merrily along "refining" your recently published family >history, blissfully unaware that the number of errata pages now far >exceeds the number of pages in your original publication. > >During an ice storm and power outage, you ignore the pleas of your >shivering spouse and place your last quilt around that 1886 photograph >of dear Uncle George. > >The most recent document in your "Missing Ancestors" file is a 36-page >contract between you and Johnson Billboard Advertising Company. > >Ed McMahon, several t.v. cameras and an envelope from Publishers >Clearing House arrive at your front door on Super Bowl Sunday, and the >first thing you say is, "Are you related to the McMahons of Ohio?" > >"A Loving Family" and "Financial Security" have moved up to second and >third, respectively, on your list of life's goals, but still lag far >behind "Owning My Own Microfilm Reader." > >A magical genie appears and agrees to grant your any one wish, and you >ask that the 1890 census be restored. > > >> --part0_906587068_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.juno.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by air-zb04.mail.aol.com (v50.11) with SMTP; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:02:03 -0400 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA04272; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA12984; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Old-To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: You Know You're Taking Genealogy Too Seriously If..... Message-ID: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-54 From: [email protected] (Helen M Crisman) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:56:00 EDT Resent-Message-ID: <"b60svD.A.KJD.QRUC2"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1470 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit A little humor I received from one of my other mailling lists: > >Some genealo-humor to lighten and brighten your day! *;) > >********************************************************************* > .....You Know You're Taking Genealogy Too Seriously If..... >********************************************************************* > >You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party with a >shovel. > >In order to put the "final touches" on your genealogical research, >you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples. > >You were instrumental in having "non-genealogical use of the genealogy >room copy machine" classified as a federal hate crime. > >Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical >records are stored. > >You decided to take a two-week break from genealogy, and the U.S. Postal >Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees. > >Out of respect for your best friend's unquestioned reputation for >honesty and integrity, you are willing to turn off that noisy >surveillance camera while she reviews your 57 genealogical research >notebooks in your home. The armed security guard, however, will remain. > >You plod merrily along "refining" your recently published family >history, blissfully unaware that the number of errata pages now far >exceeds the number of pages in your original publication. > >During an ice storm and power outage, you ignore the pleas of your >shivering spouse and place your last quilt around that 1886 photograph >of dear Uncle George. > >The most recent document in your "Missing Ancestors" file is a 36-page >contract between you and Johnson Billboard Advertising Company. > >Ed McMahon, several t.v. cameras and an envelope from Publishers >Clearing House arrive at your front door on Super Bowl Sunday, and the >first thing you say is, "Are you related to the McMahons of Ohio?" > >"A Loving Family" and "Financial Security" have moved up to second and >third, respectively, on your list of life's goals, but still lag far >behind "Owning My Own Microfilm Reader." > >A magical genie appears and agrees to grant your any one wish, and you >ask that the 1890 census be restored. > > --------- End forwarded message ---------- Helen Crisman [email protected] ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Check out other counties in PA! http://libertynet.org/~gencap/pacounties.html --part0_906587068_boundary--