SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression, is 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/email. Swears at mailman when he does not leave mail.(I have stooped to swearing at my AOL mailbox) Frequents strange places such as cemetaries, ruins and remote, desolate areas. Makes secret phone calls at night. Hides phone bill from spouse and mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in the eye. NO KNOWN CURE !! TREATMENT: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines (email lists) and be given a quiet corner in the house where he or she can be alone. author unknown