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Just for Fun

  • Genealogy is fun. The answer to one question leads to two more questions.
     
  • My family coat of arms ties at the back. Is that normal?
     
  • Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.
     
  • At the public ceremony in which your distinguished ancestor participated, the platform collapsed from under him.
     
  • After much hard work, you have resolved a mystery you’ve worked on for two years, then your aunt says “I could have told you that!”.
     
  • Your great grandfather’s newspaper obituary states he died leaving no children.
     
  • The thirty-seven volume, sixteen thousand-page history of your county of origin is not indexed.
     
  • Tombstone inscriptions:
     
    • Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising. (cemetery in Ruidoso, NM)
       
    • Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. He stepped on the gas instead of the brake. (cemetery in Uniontown, PA)
       
    • Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a .44, No Les, No more. (Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, AZ, Les was a Wells Fargo station agent in Naco, AZ)
       
    • She always said here feet were killing her but nobody believed her (Margaret Daniels in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA)
       
    • Born 1903 – Died 1942. Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was. (Harry E. Smith, Albany, NY)
       

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