----- Original Message ----- From: "Debi" <debip@bellsouth.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Humor > Here ya go, Al, hope you enjoy. > > Debi > > From Genealogy For Dummies 1.1 > ============================== > > My family coat of arms ties at the back ... is that normal? > > My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated. > > My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! > > Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! > > My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets. > > How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?! > > I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap. > > I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged. > > I'm searching for myself; have you seen me? > > If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help ... > > Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more! > > It's 2002 ... do you know where your G-G-Grandparents are? > > A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. > > A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots. > > A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. > > After 30 days unclaimed ancestors will be adopted. > > Am I the only person up my tree ... sure seems like it. > > Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples. > > Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? > > FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. > > Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease but I love it. > > Genealogists are time unravelers. > > Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide ... I seek! > > Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. > > "Crazy" is a relative term in my family. > > A pack rat is hard to live with but makes a fine ancestor. > > I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand. > > I should have asked them BEFORE they died! > > I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days. > > I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower. > > Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress. > > Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality. > > Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! > > It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a > > thief. > > Many a family tree needs pruning. > > Shhh! Be very, very quiet ... I'm hunting forebears. > > Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! > > That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN! > > I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes. > > Genealogists live in the past lane. > > Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots! > > Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree > > Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool! > > Always willing to share my ignorance ... > > Documentation ...The hardest part of genealogy. > > Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! > > Genealogy ... will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? > > That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards > > I researched my family tree ... and apparently I don't exist! > > I found all of my five fathers. Er, four fathers. Er, fore fathers, > FOREFATHERS! That's it! > > > > I've often wondered about some things: > > > >Can a first cousin, once removed, return? > > > >Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite. > > > >Crazy.... is a relative term in MY family. > > > >Genealogy: It's all relative in the end anyway. > > > >Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. > > > >I trace my family history so I will know who to blame. > > > >It's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine! > > > >Life takes it's toll. Have exact change ready! > > > >Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery! > > > >That's strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN! > > > >Do I even WANT ancestors? Some I found I wish I could lose. > > > >Every family tree has some sap in it. > > > >FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. > > > >Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate. > > > >Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots. > > > >Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need. > > > >Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! > > > >Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. > > > >Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! > > > >I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom. > > > >Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. > > > >My ancestors are hiding in a witness protection program. > > > >My family tree is a few branches short! > > > >Research: What I'm doing, when I don't know what I'm doing. > > > >Take nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records. > > > >Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Al Simmons" <tennref@tnco.net> > To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:49 AM > Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Humor > > > > Calling all genealogists - need some good genealogy jokes, puns, or > sayings to use in presentations to a reunions, historical groups, or > "genies". Any help appreciated... al simmons > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >