Definitions

Baby: A new acorn on the family tree.

Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite.

Cussin: what genealogists do when they can’t find one.

FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.

Genealogists: Time unravelers.

Genealogist: One always in search of a good dead man!

Genealogy: People collecting people!

Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It’s the threads I need.

Genealogy: Looking for needles in haystacks.

Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!

Genealogy: The marriage of a jigsaw puzzle to a dungeon & dragons game.

Genealogy: Tracing descent from someone who didn’t.

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.

Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.

Documentation: the worst part of genealogy.

Documentation: the hardest part of genealogy.

Family history: a quilt work of lives.

Kinship: it`s all relative!

RELATIVES: people who come to dinner who aren’t friends.

Puritanism: the fear that someone somewhere is happy.

Research: What I’m doing, when I don’t know what I’m doing.