Top 10 indicators that you've become a geneaholic

[genealogynut]

1.  You intorduce your daughter as your descendant.

2. You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though you're related

3.  You can recite your lineage back eight generations, but can't remember your nephew's name.

4.  You have more photographs of dead people than of living ones

5.  You've even taken a tape recorder and / or notebook to a family reunion.

6.  You've not only read the latest GEDCOM standard, but also you understand it.

7.  The local genealogy society borrows books from you.

8.  The only film you've seen in the last year was the 1880 census index.

9.  More than half of your CD collection is made up of marriage records or pedigrees

10.  Your elusive ancestor has been spotted in more different places than ELVIS!!!!

[Wilma]

I enjoyed this, but I have found something beneficial about prying into my ancestors past.  I have a better understanding of what kind of people they were.  I had always thought my Grandmother Hancock (altho I never knew her) was mousy and timid.  I was given a copy of her father's death certificate and the signature of the related person (in a firm, beautiful script) read Mrs. H. A. Hancock.  I thought, "wait a minute, we don't have an H. A. Hancock", then it occurred to me, my grandmother's name was Harriet Ann.  In a time that women were using their husband's given name, my grandmother used her own initials.  I saw my grandmother in a different light.  I think now that she was the back bone of the family.  Not only because of this, but of other things that I know about her life.

Genealogists may not think the way other people do, but I wish I could be called one.