> SMILE FOR THE MONTH!! > > WARNING!!! > Genealogy Pox is very contagious!!!! > > SYMPTOMS: > Continual complaints as to need for names, dates and places. > Patient has blank expression, 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, SWEARS at > postman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as > cemeteries, ruins and remote desolute country areas. Makes secret night > calls...hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has a strange, > far-away look in eyes. > > OTHER IDENTIFYING SYMPTOMS: > Has piles and piles of books,papers, census records and notes. Sometimes in > file cabinets > but most of the time piled on tables, floors and computer workstations. > > NO KNOWN CURE!!! > Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets > progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, join > Gnealogical Societies, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a > quiet corner in the house where he/she can be alone. > > FINAL COMMENT: > The usual nature of this disease is..... the sicker the patient becomes, the > more he/she enjoys it. > Sounds like a lot of People around here-- Doesn't it? Sharon McCormack <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2">http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2</A> Joyce G. Reece, Kaye Buckner Presley, Sharon McCormack American Local History Network Web site co-hosts at McMinn County -Our Tennessee Home