Hi and Happy Valentines Day! I thought some of you might enjoy these sayings. #s 9 and 24 are my favorites. Ramona Ramona Gayle Bayes Woods mailto:[email protected] List Mom for: Bayes-Kidder-Stogsdill- Sturges-Sturgess-Sturgill-KYMORGAN-HISTORY-L | | GENEALOGY SAYINGS | | | | 1. My family coat of arms ties at the back... is that normal? | | 2. My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated. | | 3. My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! | | 4. Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! | | 5. My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets. | | 6. How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?? | | 7. I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap. | | 8. I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged. | | 9. I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me? | | 10. If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help... | | 11. Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two | | more! | | 12. It's 2001... Do you know where your -Gr-Gr-Grandparents are? | | 13. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. | | 14. A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots. | | 15. A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. | | 16. After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted | | 17. Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it. | | 18. Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few | | bad apples. | | 19. Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? | | 20. FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. | | 21. Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but we love it. | | 22. Genealogists are time unravelers. | | 23. Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... we seek! | | 24. Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. | | 25. "Crazy" is a relative term in my family. | | 26. A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor. | | 27. I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand. | | 28. I Should have asked them BEFORE they died! | | 29. I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days. | | 30. I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower. | | 31. Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress. | | 32. Share your knowledge; it is a way to achieve immortality. | | 33. Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like | | fools! | | 34. It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening | | or a thief | | 35. Many a family tree needs pruning. | | 36. Shh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears. | | 37. Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! | | 38. That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN! | | 39. I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes. | | 40. Genealogists live in the past lane. | | 41. Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots! | | 42. Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree. | | 43. All right! Everybody out of the gene pool! | | 44. Always willing to share my ignorance... | | 45. Documentation... The hardest part of genealogy. | | 46. Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! | | 47. Genealogy... will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? | | 48. That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards. | | 49. I researched my family tree... and apparently I don't exist!