Genealogy Taglines

From the Genealogy Newspaper Clippings Shoebox:

• "…t-t-t-t-talking ’bout my g-g-g-g-generation…."
• "Ancestors required" – please supply photo and references
• "Crazy" is a relative term in MY family
• "Life, liberty and the right to know who your ancestors are."
• "Looking for roots in all the wrong places…"
• "SSHHHH! Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting forebears!"
• ***QUARANTINED***GENEALOGY FEVER***INCURABLE***
• 50% of my ancestors were female.
• 50% of my ancestors were women…
• 50% of my forefathers were female.
• A Complete Genealogy just can’t be..there’s always more.
• A cousin a day keeps boredom away.
• A family history shows you have lived!
• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
• A family tree can wither if nobody maintains its roots!
• A family tree can wither if nobody tends it’s roots.
• A family tree has many branches; not all have the same last name..
• A good name is more desirable than great riches…
• A great many family trees were started by grafting.
• A great oak is only a little nut that held it’s ground.
• A job is nice, but it interferes with genealogy research.
• A leaf, twigs, limbs, branches, trunk & root = TREE
• A little a’disk & a little a’data.
• A lot of history isn’t fit to repeat itself.
• A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.
• A miser is hard to live with, but makes an excellent ancestor.
• A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.
• Adam and Eve probably found genealogy a bit boring.
• Add to your Genealogy the fun, easy way. Have Grand Children!
• After 30 days unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
• Ain’t Family Fun.
• All right! Everybody out of the genetic pool!
• All your lines have daughtered out, with one exception!
• Alright! Everybody out of the genetic pool!
• Always searching for leads…
• Always willing to share my ignorance…
• Am I in the right family tree?
• Am I the only person up my tree? Seems like it.
• An affliction of the blood.
• An ancestor is a person who plays HIDE and you go SEEK.
• An eternity existed before your birth and waits for you today.
• Ancestor files – a meeting place of cousins!
• Ancestor not found …how do I prove I exist?
• Ancestors are just people.
• Ancestors left unclaimed after 30 days will NOT be discarded.
• Ancestors not found. Do I really exist?
• Ancestors run in my family.
• Ancestors were just people..
• Ancestors: They can hide, but they can’t RUN anymore!
• And Adam said, Eve, don’t I have any clean fig leaves?
• Ankle deep in the gene pool.
• Any ancestors you can dig up would be appreciated.
• Any family tree produces some lemons, nuts and bad apples.
• Any Genealogists in the house ? <> Any more ?
• Anybody else out there got a batchelor GGG’Pa with 11 kids?
• Archaeologists do it for centuries.
• Archaeologists will date any old thing.
• At last a chance to make my skeletons dance!
• Babies are a nice way to start people.
• Baby = A new acorn on the family tree.
• Battle Cry – Take all of the ancestors, leave only the records!
• Be vewy quiet, I’m hunting forebears.
• Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting forebears.
• Before you brag about your family tree, better do some pruning!
• Beware of the Genealogy Bug; It’s bite can be addictive!
• Biochemists wear designer genes.
• Blessed are the Elderly for they remember what we never knew.
• Boldly start in reverse, ’cause that’s the genealogy way.
• Boy, I wish my crystal ball ran in reverse!!
• Brother’s Keeper … the ultimate program
• But most of all, I just want relatives I can find!!!
• But Mr. Moderator, I was chasing Ancestors!
• C A U T I O N ! You have now entered the Genealogy Zone.
• Can a first cousin, once removed, return?
• Can’t find your ancestor? Maybe he flunked his blood test!
• Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite.
• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
• Chasing your own tale.
• Climbing my family tree is fun…
• Climbing my family tree is fun…even gathering a nut two
• Climbing my family tree was fun until the nuts appeared.
• Columbus had a fourth ship – it sailed over the edge.
• Computer Genealogy: working out where your computer came from.
• Cousins marrying cousins makes for VERY tangled roots!
• Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree
• Cousins marrying cousins: VERY tangled roots!
• Cussed Cousins!!
• Cussin – what genealogists do when they can’t find one.
• Dammit, Jim! I’m a doctor, not a genealogist.
• Damn! My family tree was just wood-chipped.
• Dead people like to hang around cemeteries.
• Death is just nature’s way of dropping carrier
• Diarrhea is hereditary. It runs in your genes.
• Did my ancestors inbreed? My genes seem tight!
• Did our ancestors ever have a bad heir day?
• Do I even WANT ancestors? Some I found I wish I could lose.
• Do I hear the rattle of chains?
• Do I need a Genealogical Search Warrant to see the records?
• Do our ancestors have bad heir days?
• Do you know where your great-grandparents were?
• Documentation….The hardest part of genealogy.
• Doing gardening in the Family tree.
• Don’t bother me now, I’m digging up my ‘ROOTS’!
• Don’t judge me by my relatives, I didn’t choose them!
• Don’t sit under the family tree with anyone else but me!
• Eat… Sleep… Trace my roots.
• Enough research will tend to support your theory.
• Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
• Every family tree has some sap in it.
• Every time I find an ancestor I need to find two more!
• Every time I think I know where they are, they move!
• Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.
• Evolution is God’s way of issuing updates
• Excuse me, while I dance a little jig of despair.
• FAMILY HISTORY: a quilt work of lives
• Family Tree? More like a noxious weed.
• Family Tree? Ours is a shrub!
• Family tree climber.
• Family trees are great for hanging out your genes.
• Family Trees are ideal to hang your genes on!
• FAM_TREE.LST not found. Create new genealogist? (Y/N)
• Fastest way to trace family tree: run for public office.
• Find your ancestors, before they find you!
• FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
• For a reply, send a self-abused, stomped elephant to…
• Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
• Friends may come and go, but relatives never leave.
• G*d! What a mess this family’s in.
• Gene Police: "Hey YOU! Out of the pool."
• Gene-Allergy – It’s a contagious disease, but I love it!
• Genealilocks and the forebears.
• Genealogica Bonsai – Little Family Trees!
• Genealogist caught chopping down family tree! Microfilm at 11:00.
• Genealogist’s read backwards…
• Genealogist: tracing descent from someone who didn’t.
• Genealogists are ghost-a-holics.
• Genealogists are like monkeys, always in the trees.
• Genealogists are time unravelers.
• Genealogists collect dead relatives.
• Genealogists do it generation after generation.
• Genealogists do it in the archives.
• Genealogists do it in the library.
• Genealogists do it in the trees!
• Genealogists do it with a computer.
• Genealogists don’t die, they just lose their census.
• Genealogists live in the past lane.
• Genealogists never die they just haunt cemeteries.
• Genealogists never die, they just loose their census
• Genealogists never quit, they just go to another branch!
• Genealogists should also consider the handsome neighbor…
• Genealogists: People helping people…..that’s what it’s all about!
• Genealogy – a search for the greatest treasures, our ancestors.
• Genealogy – Better than the best adventure game and as frustrating.
• Genealogy – it’s only an obsession after all!
• Genealogy – The only hobby where dead people can excite you.
• Genealogy – where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
• Genealogy – Will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
• Genealogy can’t be cured with Penicillin or other antibiotics.
• Genealogy goes on… and on… and on…
• Genealogy in the buff, no I mean A genealogy Buff!
• GENEALOGY IS CONTAGIOUS – NOT ALWAYS FATAL!
• Genealogy is contagious – not always fatal!
• Genealogy is contagious – seldom fatal!
• Genealogy is great when you score!
• Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek!
• GENEALOGY is my hobby. I collect ancestors & descendants.
• Genealogy is not a hobby, it’s a disease!
• Genealogy is relatively interesting.
• Genealogy is T-R-E-E-rific!
• Genealogy made me what I am today.
• Genealogy without documentation is _mythology_.
• Genealogy…hoping I’m related to Merle Haggard!
• Genealogy…it’s not a hobby, it’s an obsession.
• Genealogy…where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
• GENEALOGY: Chasing your own tale!
• Genealogy: Making cucumbers out of pickles.
• Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
• Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles.
• Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It’s the threads I need.
• Genealogy: Chasing your own tale.
• Genealogy: It’s all relative in the end anyway.
• Genealogy: It’s not a hobby, it’s an obsession.
• Genealogy: Looking for bones in the closet.
• Genealogy: Making cucumbers out of pickles.
• Genealogy: People collecting people!
• Genealogy: People needing people, dead or alive!
• Genealogy: Search long enough and EVERYONE connects somehow.
• Genealogy: The marriage of a jigsaw puzzle to a dungeon & dragons game.
• Genealogy: Tracing descent from someone who didn’t.
• Genealogy: tracing us back to the same brother & sister.
• Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
• Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
• Genes, the splice of life!
• Genetic Engineering: Heir styling!
• Genetic experiment gone bad?
• Genetics: Why you look like your father, or should.
• Genie diet – Fiche and ships and tantalizing sources.
• Geraldo Rivera: Genetic experiment gone bad?
• Ghosts are merely unsubstantiated roomers
• Give me your tired, your poor … they’re genealogists!
• Go climb your family tree.
• God gave us relatives, luckily we can choose our friends!
• God! What a mess this family’s in.
• Goldilocks had three bears. Genealogists have forebears.
• Gone Relative Fishing…
• Good friends will fill our days with happy memories!
• Got to find them before I join them.
• Grandpa, Tell me about the Good Old Days!
• Grandpop.com not found. Loading Cousin.com instead.
• Great, great, grandpa, Where are you? Who are you?
• Happiness is a genealogist who just found their lost ancestor!
• Happy hunting for your ancestral name changes!
• Happy Hunting, Cleaning & Restoring
• Has anyone seen my roots?
• Have roots, will grow…
• Have tree, will climb – just as all my ancestors did.
• Have you hugged a Genealogist today?
• He ain’t heavy–He’s my brother’s aunt’s sister’s husband.
• He pondered deep and darkly over worm eaten texts.
• He was the Dutch Elm Disease of his family tree.
• Help! I’m lost somewhere in the Generation Gap.
• Heredity is great until your children act like fools!
• Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
• Hey! You got Chocolate on my pedigree chart!
• Hey! You got peanut butter on my pedigree chart!
• Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Now where did my ancestors go?
• Hi Ho, Hi Ho – it’s off to research I go.
• History is a set of lies agreed upon.
• History is only gossip- Oscar Wilde
• History repeats itself because nobody listens.
• History repeats itself because nobody reads.
• Hold on, my cat’s caught in the printer…
• How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE ??
• Hug a Genealogist.
• Hunting FOREBEARS…
• Hunting season is all year long in genealogy.
• I always check the "Native American" box; I was born in Maine!
• I am NOT illiterate! My parents WERE SO MARRIED!!
• I bet you thought I was going to use a Genealogy tagline!
• I can almost swear a dog hiked his leg on my family tree.
• I can trace my taglines back 8 generations.
• I checked out my family tree. Just as I thought… poison ivy!
• I collect dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!
• I do it in the archives.
• I finally got it all together. Now where did I put it?
• I looked for my ancestors,….and I found friends.
• I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap.
• I looked up my family tree, two dogs were using it!-Rodney Dangerfield
• I never steal taglines – I’m a genealogist – I just adopt them.
• I only work on Genealogy on days that end in "Y".
• I reach out to touch all branches in my lineages.
• I researched my family tree… apparently I don’t exist!
• I search and search some more, then I find and search some more…
• I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell out.
• I shook my family tree and out came a forest of friends.
• I should have asked them BEFORE they died!
• I think my ancestors had several "bad heir" days.
• I think my family tree is a few branches short.
• I think that I shall never see a completed Genealogy!
• I think that I shall never see; A mess such as my family tree.
• I think the family tree needs pruning.
• I trace family history so I will know who to blame.
• I traced my roots back to a cesspool. – Rodney Dangerfield
• I used to have a life, then I started doing genealogy.
• I want to find ALL of them!
• I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
• I wish Noah had swatted those two flies!!
• I wonder if a "Missing Persons Bulletin" would locate my g-g-grandpa?
• I’d love to, but I’m converting my calendar from Julian to Gregorian.
• I’d rather be tracing my roots.
• I’d rather look for dead people than have ‘em look for me.
• I’m a genealogist with faded "genes", full of holes!
• I’m always late. My ancestors arrived on the Juneflower.
• I’m lost in a forest of Family Trees!!!
• I’m lost in my family tree!
• I’m no genealogist. … Until this year I spelled it "geneOlogist!"
• I’m not sick. I’ve just got fading genes.
• I’m not stuck, I’m ancestrally challenged.
• I’m searching for myself; Have you seen me?
• I’m stuck in my family tree and I can’t get down!
• If a family tree falls in the woods will anyone hear it?
• If my crystal ball just ran in reverse!!
• If only ancestors had pull-down menus and on line help!
• If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help…
• If the family skeleton must remain, make it dance.
• If your family tree does not branch, you might be a redneck!
• In my family tree, all my old roots are underground.
• In pursuit of elusive ancestors.
• Insanity is hereditary… You get it from your kids.
• Insanity runs in my family; it practically gallops.
• Is there life after Genealogy?
• Is your family tree evergreen or deciduous?
• Isn’t genealogy fun? The answer to one problem, leads to two more!
• It is hereditary in my family not to have children
• It’s 1997. Do you know where your great-grandparents were?
• It’s a family affair.
• It’s a poor family that hath neither a whore or a thief.
• It’s hard to be humble with ancestors like mine!
• It’s hard to believe that someday I’ll be an ancestor.
• It’s search and search some more, then I find and search some more.
• JEANEALOGY: Study of Levi’s, Wranglers, and other denims
• Just follow my roots. I’ll turnip somewhere!
• Just when you think you’ve found them all, Up pops another!
• Keep on a digging, the best bones are buried deepest!
• Kin: An affliction of the blood.
• Kinship: it’s all relative!
• Kissin cousins
• Know your roots: potatoes, carrots, and sassafras…
• Know your roots: potatoes, carrots, turnips…
• Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
• Life, liberty and the right to know who your ancestors are.
• Like my ancestors..I’m either dead or lost!
• Locate lost relatives–Win the lottery
• Looked for my ancestors – found friends.
• Looking for ancestors and M&Ms!
• Looking for ancestors.
• Looking for needles in haystacks.
• Many a family tree needs trimming.
• May all your family trees branch toward the stars!
• May my search reveal all
• May the Saint of Genealogists bless you!
• May you ask the right question of the right person at the right time.
• May your family tree grow happy branches.
• Misers are hard to live with but they make great ancestors.
• Money is the root of all evil, and we need roots!
• Most of my family roots are underground.
• My ancestors are Copyrighted. You have my permission to use the data.
• My ancestors are hiding in a witness protection program.
• My Ancestors could whip your Ancestors.
• My ancestors did WHAT?!?
• My ancestors must be hiding in a witness protection program.
• My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
• My Cup Runneth Over…..all because I’m old and shaky!
• My family came on the Mayflower…or was it Allied?
• My family coat-of-arms ties in the back. Is that normal?
• My family tree died in the last drought.
• My family tree got cut up for firewood.
• My Family Tree has Root Rot!!
• My family tree is a few branches short! Help appreciated.
• My family tree is full of NOT holes… it’s NOT him, it’s NOT her!!!
• My family tree is full of nuts.
• My family tree is in the forest, somewhere!
• My family tree is lost in the forest
• My family tree must have been used for firewood.
• My family tree’s roots went underground.
• My genes are so tight, they may stay with me forever
• My hobby is genealogy, and I raise dust bunnies as pets.
• My husband thinks I should get a job – but who would do the genealogy?
• My kids will appreciate the research I’ve done……..when pigs fly…
• My kissing cousins are also my missing cousins
• My life has become one large Gedcom!!
• My modem almost drowned in a Fido/IGA bit stream.
• My problems are all relative.
• My problems are all relative. Just too many of them.
• My roots only go down so far, but my branches spread forever!
• My wife thinks I should get a job – but who would do the genealogy?
• Never argue with a skunk, mule, woman, or genealogist.
• Never ever give up.
• Never forget the "quest" in questions!
• New friends are fun to find…so are old ancestors…
• No – yes – maybe – could be – perhaps. Musings of a genealogist.
• Nosy bugger, ain’t I?
• Not crazy, just almost lost my census!
• Not tonight dear, I just got the new version of BK!
• Not tonight dear, I just got the new version of FO!
• Not tonight dear, I just got the new version of PAF!
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained, no one found!
• Now I’m here, and history is vindicated. – Calvin
• Oh where, oh where, have my ancestors gone?
• OK, so I don’t descend from anyone….now what??
• Old genealogists never die, they just haunt cemeteries
• Old genealogists never die, they just lose their census.
• Old Genealogists never die. They just get root rot.
• Old Genealogists never die. They just haunt Archives.
• Olly,olly,oxen free! All hiding ancestors can come out!
• Once a hobby, now an expensive addiction.
• One big happy family
• Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.
• Only God Can Prune A Family Tree.
• Originality is the art of concealing your sources
• Out on a limb, on the Family Tree!
• PAF the Magic Wagon — a carriage to the past.
• Pardon me but I am chasing Ancestors!
• Problem with the gene pool: No lifeguard.
• Pruning family trees is NOT allowed.
• Pruning the Family Tree is NOT permitted!
• Raise nae mair deils than ye’re able to lay.- Old Scot Sayin
• Read the local ghost stories, maybe you’ll find family.
• Reading about relatives is relative reading.
• RELATIVES: People who come to dinner who aren’t friends.
• Remember, undocumented genealogy is mythology.
• Research: What I’m doing, when I don’t know what I’m doing.
• Researching [YOUR NAME] anytime, anywhere, any takers?
• RULE #1: Everyone must buy the moderator Chocolate.
• Save the trees… family trees, that is…
• Scotty, beam me that lost ancestor.
• Search out the past, know yourself, look toward the future.
• Searching for a Needle in a Haystack
• Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery!
• Searching for roots beats chasing dust bunnies!
• Searching Shipping records? Simply naval gazing
• Seeking my ancestors is like Hide & Go Seek!
• SEXIST GENEALOGIST: Person Who Looks for Missing and Kissing Cousins!
• Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
• Shaking trees and kicking rocks, looking for ancestors.
• Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality.
• Sharing genealogy is a rewarding experience!
• Shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet…I’m hunting forebears. Elmer Fudd
• Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
• Snoopers welcome! Feel free to provide comments & relatives!
• So many relatives, so little time.
• Someday YOU’LL be an ancestor too!
• Sometimes you find an ancestor hanging from the family tree!
• Spring showers bring May flowers…and May Flowers bring Pilgrims!
• Still looking…..
• Still searching, after all these years!
• Still trying to decorate my family tree.
• Synonym: a word you use when you can’t spell the other.
• Take nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records.
• That’s strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN!
• That’s the problem with the gene pool: No lifeguard
• The ancestors you can find aren’t yours.
• The best prophet of the future is the past.
• The black sheep keeps the best info on the family.
• The End of the Road points to a new opportunity…
• The gene pool could use a little chlorine!
• The one who dies with the most surnames, wins!
• The other half of my ancestors were male
• The researcher dug up my family tree & now wants more $ to cover it up
• The sharing part of Genealogy is fun!
• Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we’re all related.
• There are no answers, only cross-references.
• There is History in our Roots!!!
• There is my Dad & Adam but a big gap between them..
• There is no such thing as a useless piece of information.
• There is strength in our Roots.
• They can hide, but they can’t RUN anymore!
• They’re cousins, identical cousins.
• They’ve said *you* are the fertilizer of your family tree!
• This family tree is sapping all my strength.
• This is your brain on genealogy? Any questions?
• This person’s Genealogical postulations not necessarily correct.
• Thrift is a great virtue…in an ancestor.
• Time and Genealogy waits for no man.
• To a genealogist, EVERYTHING is relative!
• To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
• To understand ourselves…we must study the past!
• Tracing us back to the same brother and sister.
• Treeclimbers ‘R us.
• Trees without roots fall over.
• Try genealogy. You can’t get fired and you can’t quit!
• Unable to locate Coffee — Genealogy Research Halted!
• Unlimited keyword search…the Genealogist’s delight!
• Vampires are blood relatives.
• Warning!! There are no lifeguards in the gene pool!
• We are all related…relatively speaking.
• We in Maine are proud of our roots, we just can’t find them.
• We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
• We shall find no ancestor before his time.
• We shall gather at the river (or the genealogy library if it rains).
• What did I do before I chased dead men?
• What do you mean my Birth Certificate expired?
• What do you mean my family tree has root rot!
• What do you mean my grandparents didn’t have any kids!?!
• What have you done with my ancestors’ papers??
• What I’m looking for is a blessing NOT in disguise.
• When I get old I’m going to trace my roots.
• When I retire I’m going to trace my roots.
• When I searched for ancestors I found friends.
• When marriage is outlawed only outlaws will have in-laws.
• When there’s a will, I want to be in it.
• When tracing ancestors, please stay within the lines.
• When you marry, your family tree can become a forest.
• When you search for ancestors, you find friends
• Who’s in charge of washing the Family Group Sheets?
• Whoever said "seek and ye shall find" was NOT a genealogist
• Why are there so many gnarled limbs on my family tree?
• Why you look like your father, or should.
• With MY luck, my Family Tree has Root Rot!
• Wonder if a "Missing Persons Bulletin" would locate my g-g-g-grandpa?
• Yea, once a hobby – now an expensive addiction!
• Yikes! My genes are faded and full of holes!
• You can tell you’re a redneck if your family tree doesn’t branch.
• You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
• You’re a Redneck if you pick up chicks at the Family Reunion…
• You’re only as strong as your roots.
• You’ve got the name, how about the genes?
• Your Ancestors are my Ancestors.
• Your family is NEVER the first one listed in the Census!
• Your Family Tree search ends with Adam and Eve.
• Your Genealogy Buddy
  Your genealogy is never done!!
• Yoo Hoo Where are you, lil’ ancestor?