Genealogy Creep

Genealogy Creep, sometimes known as Genealogy Spread.  Caused by the ever increasing desire for another place to sift through old, dusty, moldy, dirt laden "treasures" requiring more and more room to place items of interest to be researched for that next blog entry, scanning project or a place to sort those boxes you're waiting to pick up on that next visit to the family home.

Symptoms: watery itchy eyes, sneezing, and sniffling due to the dirt and dust. A noticeable change in demeanor when people try to "touch" your stuff or even worse move it!  An insatiable urge to join sites such as Ancestry.com and Genealogybank.  Poking around in cemeteries and knowing more about your dead relatives than your live ones.

Treatment:  At this time treatment options are limited but include Benadryl, learning relaxation techniques, practicing yoga, and limiting computer time.  :)

Genealogy Creep has been known to be contagious!

This used to be the dining room table.  Now it's a victim of "genealogy creep" and is just
one of the many places in our home that have been taken over by the past.

Things you might be surprised to find in your family tree...

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Turner Morehead had two wives.  Not at the same time of course. Ann Ransdell was his first wife and she had a lot of kids. Mary (Polly) Hewitt Hooe was his second wife and they had a bunch of kids as well.  All told Turner Morehead had about 20 children.  As you can see, that caused a huge snarl in the family tree.

I've color coded the connections but  I'm sure I've left out a few somewhere in this part of the tree.  For now I think this shows exactly why our son was born with one pinky shorter than the other!  Heh.

As my son says, "that's jacked up mom."