GENEALOGY JOKES.

We feel that genealogists should be able to laugh at themselves as well as their hobby and/or profession.  If you have a great genealogy joke please Email GenealogyGenius.com and if appropriate we will include it on this page and of course will give you credit.

A woman from the deepest, most southern part of Alabama goes into the local newspaper office to see that the obituary for her recently deceased husband is written. The obit editor informs her that the fee for the obituary is 50 cents a word.

She pauses, reflects and then says, "Well, then, let it read, 'Billy Bob died'."

Amused at the woman's thrift, the editor says, "Sorry ma'am, there is a 7 word minimum on all obituaries."

Only a little flustered, she thinks things over and in a few seconds says, "In that case, let it read, 'Billy Bob died - 1983 Pick-up for sale.'"   (Found at www.mudfacemarge.com)

MMM..after collecting old photographs from five generations I find I look like none of them..

You may be addicted to genealogy if

you'd rather go to a cemetery than a mall
you brake for libraries
you hyperventilate at the site of an old cemetery
you think every home should have a microfilm reader
you know every town clerk in your state by name
you get locked in the library over night and never even notice
you are more interested in what happened in 1667 than 1997
you store your clothes under your bed..the closet is carefully stocked with notebooks and journals
you can pinpoint Harrietsham, Hawkhurst and Kent on a map of England, but can not locate Topeka Kansas
You've traced some of your ancestors back to Adam and Eve, have it documented and still do not want to quit.

I am my own Grandpa!

Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse, although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad and so became my Uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it, it simply drives me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

Found at Jokeside.com