by Cindy Carman

• Your children think that picnics in the cemetery are normal.

• you brake for genealogy libraries.

• you get locked in a library overnight and never even notice.

• you sweat and have palpitations at the sight of an old cemetery.

• you'd rather walk through an old cemetery than a shopping mall.

• you think no home should be without a microfilm reader.

• you would rather read census schedules than a good book.

• you know every county clerk in your birth state by name.

• you are more interested in what happened in 1698 than in 1998

• you can pinpoint where your ancestor was born on a map, but would be challenged to locate a famous place like Mt Rushmore.

• you have more pictures of tombstones than of your own children.

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My Ancestors must be in a witness protection program

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"The Jones Family has hired me to research their ancestors." exclaimed the genealogist sadly.

Unfortunately after spending many years researching I discovered that one of the relatives was a bad criminal who after spending many years on death row was finally electrocuted. How will I be able to tell them?"

"That's easy." said the older genealogist, "Just say: "The relative in question had occupied a chair of applied electronics at one of our state's finest public institutions."