Arlington Genealogical Society

Purpose: To promote the study of genealogy and to assist the Arlington Texas Public Library in obtaining and preserving genealogical books, microforms and other records of historical interest.

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Genealogy Humour

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  1. I used to have a lot of free time… then I discovered genealogy.
  2. My ancestors are so hard to find, they must have been in a witness protection program!
  3. Done! Everything in the family tree has been found and is completely organized — said no genealogist. Ever.
  4. I’m not stuck, I’m ancestrally challenged.
  5. Can a first cousin, once removed, return?
  6. Gene-Allergy: It’s a contagious disease, but we love it.
  7. Genealogists: Disturb the dead and irritates the living.
  8. Genealogists: The only people excited to read obituaries.
  9. Genealogists never die, they just loose their census.
  10. Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots.
  11. Genealogy: Where the answer to one problem leads to two more!
  12. Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
  13. Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
  14. Genealogy: A haystack full of needles. It's the threads I need.
  15. Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide… we seek!
  16. Caution: Genealogist on board; Stay back 72 years.
  17. Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools.
  18. Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
  19. Only a genealogist views a step backwards as progress.
  20. Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
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  1. I’m more interested in what happened in 1816, than what’s happening today.
  2. I collect dead relatives!
  3. My ancestors did WHAT?
  4. Do I even WANT ancestors?
  5. Every family tree has some sap in it.
  6. My husband calls cemeteries ancestor farms.
  7. I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell out.
  8. I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
  9. I don’t have a family tree, it is more like a family web.
  10. My great-grandma from Germany couldn’t read or write, so she signed her naturalization papers with her Mark.
  11. Grandpa wouldn’t talk about his heritage, so I went digging to find the horse thief. All I’ve found so far were a bookie and numbers runner.
  12. My great grandfather fell out of a space ship and was raised by unicorns until he married for the first time at 35 years of age.
  13. I’m more interested in dead people than alive ones!
  14. I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.
  15. My ancestors name was Foote. I went to visit a graveyard in a small village where they were reputed to have lived. I sent a postcard home to my parents. There’s not one Foot(e) in the graveyard.
  16. Wife to husband: Never mind the children, do you know where your second great-grandparents are tonight?
  17. Eventually, all genealogists come to their census.
  18. Search for lost relatives? Win the lottery!
  19. A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a mighty fine ancestor.
  20. Reminder: undocumented genealogy is mythology.
  21. When my husband wakes up and I am still on my computer…
    Him: Why are you still up?
    Me: I am looking for dead people.
    Him: Why don’t you just let them rest in peace?
    Me: Where’s the fun in that?
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