Genealogy Chat

yes....I stand up and admit I too am an addict ! My teenagers think it's great....Ive stopped hassling them. I'm not on my husband's back about anything. BUT,......does this addiction really last for 10 years !! I will be broke!! AND stark raving bonkers !!

Heather you have made me feel more normal. I go to bed thinking rellies,what could I try next etc . I woke up at 6am this morning and I was thinking again, finally got up at 6-45 and I am still sitting here. Heater has been on in bathroom for a shower for 30 mins takes a while to heat up lol. Better move, I can alway's think about my ggg granny while I am in there lol. Marion

Sometimes I do worry that I am a bit round the bend. Lozie and Lyla, me too, switch on pc, go for a wee in the morning. Hubby thinks I totally obsessed and I guess I am. I dream bloody ancestry images - and about all these dead people. Perhaps we are becoming one of those cults that relatives have to rescue you from. Oh dear.

Hi Dea, I was normal until I found this site....... I have joined ancestry and try to help others. On Friday i could be spotted in a graveyard in the pouring rain writing down an inscription for a fellow GR member. You are no doubt beyond help. My advice is to give in gracefully and enjoy.... Alice

Count me in as well!!!! My husband wants to know why I am so obsessed with dead people. I have been addicted for over 10 years so beware its does not get any better, there is no known cure... its terminal. And I for one would`nt have it any other way. Best wishes to all other `sufferers`. Marianne.

My partners given up trying to talk to me tonight - he's gone down to the shed :))

Hi all i am just the same only i have been doing this for 4 years now. Husband says i spend more time looking for dead people and should get with the living a bit more. I have children 3 & 6 and there cloths are too small as they have grown and i never noticed haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa every night he gets in from work the IGI is on the screen its become a friend as we see it whilst eating tea. Hes in the livingroom right now and i'm in the kitchen its like this every night we are 38 yrs old and havent had a conversation in ages its taken over my life. Its all over i tell you haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa we all need help. Talking about PC'S my cousin has one upstairs and her husband down they use MSN to communicate he sends the cuppa tea icon and she types a smiley face they hardly talk anymore. What are we all gonna do... Colette xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hubbie calls himself an Internet Widower. Hmmm....this coming from the guy who has rigged the portable tele and the PS2 up on the worktop so he can talk to me whilst playing that and I'm on here. This coming from the guy who used to vanish for hours at a time to paint two floors up from where I'm sitting!!!

My name is Marion,and yes I am as bad as you lot lol Mine hasn't said much, apart from is it ok if I check my email or are you getting ready? I do fly about with a duster now and again, sort the washing out as I look on here, have my breakfast while looking on here, have my lunch while looking on here. I do sit at the table for tea though, that's if I have made it lol. no, we do still eat. Having broadband makes it worse, I just don't switch it off at times, then I look in and see something and that's me started again. Like this thread :)))

i know what you mean Julie, noone in my family are intrested in family trees, and don't get it when i am dancing round the room when i discover a new clue or family member love kirsty x

Just got hubby to pinch me yep i'm real also

Hi Dea I am totally addicted, obessed(spelling?) even. and i am real!lol love Kirsty x

Lozie - I think my husband would join - I just went downstairs (as there wqs a 4 minute lull in my messages) and told him that 22 people had said I was quite normal. !! He thought I should have more 'real' friend rather than 'virtual' ones. - You're not'virtual' are you ? - You're all real to me. XXXXX Dea

I have just read this thread to my husband and he says he should start his own thread 'GENEALOGY WIDOWERS/ WIDOWS CLUB' LOL Lozie :~)

Lyla, I love saturday's, coz i usually don't even get as far as gettin dressed. I switch on the pc and stay in my jim-jams all day. i love it. lol. I'm really lucky that my husband supports what i'm doing, even if he can't quite understand WHY!!!. I'm usually in the living room with the laptop and tv and he's in the kitchen with the pc. who says the art of conversation is dead????lol Lozie:~)

Hi everybody, my name is Julie and im an addict and have been for 6 months.

I am also obsessed with 'dead people' and 'genes'. My husband even made a notice for my laptop 'WARNING WOMAN OBSESSED' he even warns my friends not to ask me what i'm doing otherwise they will become infected with 'genealogy' and 'that once you catch it there is no none cure and you will be beyond help.' LOL I have even been known to switch on the laptop and check for emails before I've wee'd and washed in the morning. LOL. Now that really is taking it too far. I'm having withdrawal symptons at the moment, coz we are installing a new kitchen and we are starting it from scratch, no sink, cooker, cupboards, so that is taking up all my valuable research time!!!!! lol 'obsessed from ramsgate'

snap the same as me

Lou Have got a laptop but not conected to net this the only one, but I do have a family tree on there so work on that when I cant get on here aaaaahhhhhh this is getting worse :-)))) Josephine

WOW, thats just like me!! Every time i get home from school i come up straight to the computer to see if i have missed anything or anything has come up!! Its because this type of hobby is soo addictive!! LOL LMP :)