General Chat

Be honest are all genealogist mad or is it just me I find myself talking to my ancestors,shouting at them when i cant find a birth or marrage,crying when i find a tradgedy in thier lives,jumping up and shouting thank you thank you when i find a missing link.But most worrying im now talking to complete strangers via a message board,now thats not normal is it? slightly bonkers Jan

I feel so much better now. I thought I was the only one who did that. Keep Smiling Claire x

I wont bother with the psychiatrist appointment then, I'm normal after all! YIPEE

We are as normal as each other on this site !!!! Well we must be we talk to rellies who can't answer back , we talk to people we have never met for ages and feel better for it.... And as Karin said we are Normal it's the rest of 'em that might not be ...LOL Jan

Stark staring bonkers! ~ i've just been yelling at Free BMD, fat lot of good it did tho' I just got Birth cert for G.Grandad, brilliant I now know his Mothers name ~ however the IGI has her married to the 'wrong' man. Free BMD has her and the 'wrong' spouse on the same page but guess what ~ there are three brides named on the page but only two grooms.....my bald spots getting bigger by the minute... I'm off to take it out on the spuds. Sue

The mad bit is when our dead rellies speak back !! Mind you I wonder - I'm forever mumbling at them "Show yourselves" and the other day via e mail came a piccie of one of them from another distant rellie searching the same trunk - o er!! Makes ya wonder. Much happiness Debi

Thank you for this thread Janet, I'm glad I'm not the only one out there.My family encouraged me to take up a hobby in the begining now it's," aren't you a little obsessed with all this Mother, they are all dead who gives a s**t !!!!!!!!!!!"Only another genealogist can know the joy of finding a rellie that you have been looking for,for months and being able to fill in that little space that has been empty for so long.It's like being a detective.

Hubby came into the dining room (where I was on the computer) from the lounge the other evening and said to me"will you talk up as I cant hear what you are saying to me when I'm in the lounge" he just shook his head and plodded off back to the lounge when I said "I'm not talking to you I'm trying to raise the dead by talking to them cos I cant find them"...Yes we are all bonkers but would we have it any other way? Lynn

I'm alright. Its all the others! Len

Thank you all,now i know Im normal(well i new it all along really)It is hard to explain to others just why we get so passionate about our "hobby"but i just love every thing about it.Im going to have a nice cuppa now and have a chat to my grandad and find out why he changed his name in 1900. Good Hunting everybody Jan x

Luckily for me - hubby delves into research at times - but I refute being labelled mad - insane yes Liz

er.I Think so,bit too deep for me. Jan x

all i do is talk to them,but the b***rs dont answer...a bit like hubby really weve got a puter each,side by side,so theres me shouting for my rellies to show themselves and theres hubby shouting at his chicken thats just lost a fight!!!(dont ask) hes addicted to a site called battlewang!!! susie