 | Your house leans slightly toward the side where your genealogical records are stored. |
| You decided to take a two-week break from genealogy, and the U. S. Postal Office immediately laid off 1,500 employees. |
| You are the only person to show up at the cemetery research party with a shovel. |
| In order to put the "final touches" on your genealogical research, you've asked all of your closest relatives to provide DNA samples. |
| Everywhere you go you hear or see the name of that elusive ancestor that you just can't trace. |
| The credits roll on a movie and you turn to your spouse and say "That's the name of my GG-Grand so-and-so on my mother's side!". (Tina Hall © 2000) |
| A magical genie appears and agrees to grant you only one wish - you ask for the 1890 census to be restored. |