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From: "Jeannie Dalrymple" <>
Subject: [KYMONTGO-L] phunnie for the week, thanks Sandi, jeannie <>< llist mom
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:28:42 -0700

>"Murphy's law for genealogists"
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>* The public ceremony in which your distinguished ancestor
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>participated and of which the platform collapsed under him turned
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>out to be a hanging.
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>* When at last after much hard work you have solved the
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>mystery you have been working on for two years, your
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>aunt says, "I could have told you that."
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>* Your grandmother's maiden name that you have
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>searched for for four years was in a letter in a box in the
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>attic all the time.
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>* You never asked your father about his family when he
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>was alive because you weren't interested in genealogy then.
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>* The will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic.
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>* Copies of old newspapers have holes occurring only on
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>the surnames.
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>* John, son of Thomas, the immigrant whom your rela-
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>tives claim as the family progenitor, died on board ship
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>at age 10.
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>* Your great-grandfather's newspaper obituary states that
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>he died leaving no issue of record.
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>* The keeper of the vital records you need has just been
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>insulted by another genealogist.
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>* The relative who had all the family photographs gave
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>them all to her daughter who has no interest in geneal-
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>ogy and no inclination to share.
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>* The only record you find for your great-grandfather is
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>that his property was sold at a sheriff's sale for insolvency.
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>* The one document that would supply the missing link in
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>your deadend line has been lost due to fire, flood or war.
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>* The town clerk to whom you wrote for the information
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>sends you a long handwritten letter which is totally illegible.
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>* The spelling of your European ancestors' name bears no
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>relationship to the current spelling or pronunciation.
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>* None of the pictures in your recently deceased grand-
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>mother's photo album have names written on them.
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>* No one in your family tree ever did anything note-wor-
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>thy, owned property, was sued or was named in wills.
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>* You learn that your great aunt's executor just sold her
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>life's collection of family genealogical materials to a flea
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>market dealer "somewhere in New York City".
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>* Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely
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>proportional to the value of the data recorded.
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>* The 37 volume, sixteen thousand page history of your
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>county of origin isn't indexed.
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>* You finally find your grandparent's wedding records
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>and discover that the bride's father was named John Smith.
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>

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