Top Ten Signs Your Child Will Be a Genealogist

10. Checks the newspaper each morning for grandparents' obituaries.

9. Asked if Disneyland has its own Family History Center.

8. Theme of last birthday party was "Ellis Island: The Immigrant Experience."

7. Cried for days when told by a kid at school that the 1890 census doesn't really exist.

6. Kicked out of kindergarten for swabbing the cheeks of little girls.

5. Always asking impertinent questions like "How old are you?" and "Did your maternal grandfather die intestate?"

4. Recorded and transcribed your "birds and the bees" lecture.

3. Reenacts Civil War-era schoolyard fights.

2. Caught rubbing the family stones with a neighborhood boy.

1. First two words were "Mommy" and "GEDCOM."

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