Genealogy-You Know You Are Addicted When: by Cindy Carman >1.You can't pass a cemetery without stopping to see if one of your relatives is buried there. >There's a microfilm reader installed in your bathroom >You call traveling 10 miles to the shopping mall a lengthy trip but call a 100 mile trip to a cemetery a quick jaunt. >You spend more time in the county courthouse than your local trial lawyer. >You ask every person you meet the last names of their grandparents. >You have a massive collection of articles in which your surname is mentioned only once. >You have carpal tunnel syndrome from cranking microfilm reader handles. >You can recite the day, month, and year of your great grandmother's birth but can't remember your own spouse's birthdate. >When someone says they have a new Chicago CD you think they are talking about a vital records CD for Chicago,IL. >More than half of the photographs in your photograph albums are of dead people. >When someone asks you if you've seen any of the newly released films you think they are talking about the newly released Federal Census films. >You can remember things that happened 100 years ago but can't remember what happened yesterday. *********** Cemetery:(n)A marble orchard not to be taken for granite. LINDA M.