Genealogy Quips

From Comments seen on a Genealogy Support Group . . . .

1. My family coat of arms ties at the back ... is that normal?
   
   
2. My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated.
   
   
3. My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
   
   
4. Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
   
   
5. My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets.
   
   
6. How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?!
   
   
7. I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap ...
   
   
8. I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.
   
   
9. I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?
   
   
10. If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help ...
    
    
11. Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more!
    
    
12. It's 2000 ... Do you know where your G-G-Grandparents are?
    
    
13. A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
    
    
14. A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots.
    
    
15. A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.
    
    
16. After 30 days unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
    
    
17. Am I the only person up my tree ... sure seems like it.
    
    
18. Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts, and a few bad apples.
    
    
19. Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
    
    
20. FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
    
    
21. Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease but I love it.
    
    
22. Genealogists are time unravelers.
    
    
23. Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide ... I seek!
    
    
24. Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
    
    
25. "Crazy" is a relative term in my family.
    
    
26. A pack rat is hard to live with but makes a fine ancestor.
    
    
27. I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
    
    
28. I Should have asked them BEFORE they died!
    
    
29. I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days.
    
    
30. I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower.
    
    
31. Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress.
    
    
32. Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.
    
    
33. Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
    
    
34. It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a thief.
    
    
35. Many a family tree needs pruning.
    
    
36. Shh! Be very, very quiet ... I'm hunting forebears.
    
    
37. Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
    
    
38. That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
    
    
39. I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes.
    
    
40. Genealogists live in the past lane.
    
    
41. Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!
    
    
42. Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree
    
    
43. Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool!
    
    
44. Always willing to share my ignorance ...
    
    
45. Documentation ... The hardest part of genealogy.
    
    
46. Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
    
    
47. Genealogy ... will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
    
    
48. That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards.
    
    
49. I researched my family tree ... and apparently I don't exist!
    

[ Author Unknown -- from 'Kitty's Daily Mews' ]