Genealogy Disease

 Warning: Genealogy Pox

(very contagious after age 50)

 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 feverish looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters and email. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes long evening calls, and mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eyes.

NO KNOWN CURE

TREATMENT:  Medication is useless. Disease not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quiet corner where he or she can be alone.

Remarks--The unusual nature of this disease is . . .the sicker the patients gets, the more he/she enjoys it.