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You know you're taking genealogy too seriously if...
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You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party with a shovel.
To put the "final touches" on your genealogical research, you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples.
You were instrumental in having "non-genealogical use of the genealogy room copy machine" classified as a federal hate crime.
Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical records are stored.
You decide to take a two-week break from genealogy and the US Postal Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees.
Out of respect for your best friend's unquestioned reputation for honesty and integrity, you are willing to turn off that noisy surveillance camera while she reviews your 57 genealogical research notebooks in your home. The armed security guard, however, will remain.
You plod merrily along "refining" your recently published family history, blissfully unaware that the number of errata pages now far extends the number of pages in your original publication. (We suggest a second volume!)
During an ice storm and power outage, you ignore the pleas of your shivering spouse and place your last quilt around that 1886 photograph of dear Uncle George.
Ed McMahon, several TV cameras, and an envelope from Publishers Clearinghouse arrive at your front door on Superbowl Sunday, and the first thing you say is, "Are you related to the McMahons of Ohio?"
Found in "Rogers County Reflections", Vol. 1, Issue 4, page 12. No author credited. RCR is published by the Rogers County Genealogical Society, PO BOX 2493, Claremore, OK 74018
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You have to put in a second phone line for dedicated Internet access - it was scaring people that your phone was always busy.
Your family didn't build a bomb shelter during the missile crisis or the nuclear scare, but that's OK, you can always take refuge in your specially built, climate controlled, genealogy vault if anything happens. It will just be a question of whether or not your will finally allow food and drink near your records.
You only allow people to view family photographs if they "scrub up", use new cotton gloves, and promise not to breathe on them.
Your genealogical "coffee table books" have all been placed in clear, hermetically sealed coverings.
While you make sure all your children know how to research (they are so good in fact, this is how they earn their spending money), they are not allowed to work with your records until they are "old enough".
