There’s a lot of hilarious genealogy humor floating around the internet, here are ten finds that made us laugh the loudest.
1. General Relativity is a Breeze
2. How Will You Be Remembered? 🙂
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3. It’s the Truth
4. My Family History is Finally Complete! (um, no)
5. Family History Secrets (you know you have them)
6. Genealogist on Board
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7. Who Needs Sleep?
8. If Only…
9. Before Google (was there ever a time?)
10. A Moment of Pride in the Family Tree
Featured image credit: It’s Enough to Make a Horse Laugh, c1896, Library of Congress
I thought I discovered a new branch of my family tree … Then I realized I was barking up the wrong root!
Very funny!
Would you like to see some of our genealogy humor books (e.g., COLLECTING DEAD RELATIVES, FURTHER ADVENTURES OF A DEAD RELATIVE COLLECTION, TIPS AND QUIPS FOR THE FAMILY HISTORIAN?
So true, Jeanne Marie, so true, and I wish our ancestors -and everyone else’s ancestors – hadn’t kept on repeating multitudes of names, vertically and horizontally, within generations, and often naming subsequent children after some that had died previously [though I can understand why]. The tangles we can get into!
All sad but true, so we gotta laugh!!!
Thanks!
I knew a girl whose mother was from Iceland and her dad was from Cuba. Which made her an Ice cube.
Ba ha ha ha ha – to quote an Aussie icon- Ned Kelly ” sad but true”. I think that these really do describe us genealogists to a tee. well done!
Ok 5 minute break over its back to research 😆
Oh so true. Thanks a lot. After watching the webinar of ten more secrets to using Myheritage I was wishing for a simple card catalogue.