Genealogy Forum UK

Hi there,

I'm new to genealogy (since January this year). I never realised how much fun it could be, or how addictive! Thanks to a friend who got me started, I'm now completely hooked. I've realised I enjoy tussling with digital records in hopes that I can extract some gem and I've had some success: in January 2017 I hope to meet with one particular diamond - a "lost cousin".

I'm researching both my Irish and English/Welsh ancestry (regrettably, no Scottish ancestry yet). Like many of you, I'm sure, I've been afflicted with The Curse of the Common Surname so it has made identifying and isolating ancestors even more of a challenge.

No doubt I'll be posting in the Brick Walls section and/or asking for help with look ups some time in the future. It goes without saying that if I can reciprocate or "pay it forward", I'll be more than happy to do so.

Until then,

MsF

Welcome! It sounds like you will fit right in here.
I'm not sure which is worse - The Curse of the Common Surname or The Curse of the Obscurely Rare and Frequently Misspelled Surname.

Welcome to the forum MsF

I`m sorry to hear of your addiction but you`re in good company here hope you enjoy the forum

SYMPTOMS:
Patient continually complains of a need for names, dates, and places.
Patient has a blank expression on his face, and often seems deaf to mate and children.
Has no taste for work of any kind, except for feverishly looking through
records, libraries, and courthouse.
Has compulsion to write letters and spends hours sitting at a computer.
Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail or threatens
to kick computer if there is no email.
Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote
desolate country areas.
Makes secret night calls and hides the phone bills from mate.
Patient mumbles to self and has a strange faraway look in his eyes.
Has a strange compulsion to gather and scatter old papers all over the house,
leaving piles of paper everywhere with strange numbers and
names all over them.

TREATMENT:
No known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal,
but gets progressively worse.
Disease is spreading throughout the country very fast,
quickly becoming an epidemic.
Patient should attend genealogy meetings, workshops, subscribe
to genealogical magazines, and be given lots more forms and a computer
situated in a quiet corner of the house where he or she can be alone.
If family supports patient through this, patient will occasionally come
out of strange trance and will act normal again unless you
drive by a cemetery or courthouse.

REMARKS:
The unusual nature of this disease is such that the more sick the patient becomes,
the more he or she seems to enjoy it,
sometimes dancing with glee and yelling, "I found it!"

Welcome

Welcome to the forum.

Hello MsF
I hope you enjoy the forum and our company.
Jo