>From Chester Co., PA GenWeb Page: The Twelve Steps of Gene-Aholics Anonymous 1. We admitted that we were powerless over our database-that our files had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a GEDCOM bigger than our own could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our data and our charts over to a professional genealogy program. 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our files. 5. Admitted to the newsgroup, ourselves and to another genealogist the exact nature of our ancestors. 6. Were entirely ready to have others others scoff at our research. 7. Humbly asked them to help us clarify our sources. 8. Made a list of all ancestors we had not documented and became willing to find proper sources for them all. 9. Made changes to all records wherever possible, except when to do so would slander their memory or others. 10. Continued to take record inventories and when we didn't have a proper source, promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through webpages on the internet to improve the documentation of our ancestors, praying only for the knowledge of their whereabouts and the fortitude to list all the sources. 12. Having had a much improved genealogy as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all genealogists and to practice these steps in all our databases. ==== GenHumor Mailing List ==== !^NavFont02F04550007NGHHK5716C8 Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*