Genealogist's   Disease

Warning:Genealogy Pox Contagious to adults)

NO KNOWN CURE!!
 

Symptoms:

Continual complaint as to need for names, dates

and places.  Patient has a blank expression,

sometimes deaf, to spouse and children.  Has no

taste for work of any kind, except feverishly

looking through records at libraries and court-

houses.  Has a compulsion to write letters.  Swears

at mailman when he doesn't leave mail.  Frequents

strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and

remote, desolate country areas.  Makes secret

night calls, hides phone bills from spouse and

mumbles to self.  Has strange faraway look in eyes.

Treatment:
Medication is useless.  Disease is not fatal, but

gets progressively worse.  Patient should attend

genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical

magazines and be given a quiet corner in the

house where he or she can be alone.

Remarks:

The unusual nature of this disease is.....the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it.