Comments: Authenticated sender is <bhold@[199.125.139.10]>
Organization: Genealogy
Priority: normal
Are You a Genealogist?
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wide-brimmed hat to ward off ___
sun and rain in cemeteries.../ \
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trifocal glasses..............| 0^0 |.......pious expression for
dust mask....................(|-----|) begging documents from
sticky tongue from.............\---/ distant relatives
licking stamps |-|
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bent back from bending..../\ \ \-/ / /\ /8|--|..coffee mug that
over documents / || o ||\ \ / 8|__| says "I Brake
muscular right arm....../ /||| |o| ||| \ \ /0/ for
Cemeteries"
from cranking / / |||_|o|_|||: \ \/ /:
microfilm readers / / || o || : \ / :watch (to make sure
you
carpal tunnel......../ / |/ o \| : \/ have time before the
syndrome / / | o |: : library closes to
check
inky hands.......__/--/ oooo======| : : one more reference)
writer's cramp....//// :UUUU \_| : :vest with pedigree chart
on
: | /\ |: : back for others to read
coin changer for photocopy: | || | : :shirt with large pockets
machines and the lockers | || | : for pens, cards, etc. at
the National Archives /---\/---\ :
| || | :wallet and checkbook (you
knee pads for finding........\---/\---/ can afford genealogy
books on low shelves | || | because you don't spend
| || | your salary on food,
bottom of jogging outfit......| || | clothing, or shelter)
(recycled: who has /--/--||--\--\
time to jog?) \--\__||__/--/....hiking shoes or duck
boots
Plus....
Large backpack with many pockets for:-
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- File folders or 3-ring binder with charts,
- Blank forms,
- Soundex quick reference card,
- Acid-free page protectors,
- Pens and pencils of various colors,
- Business cards, notepad, index cards, envelopes, stamps, stapler, -
Flashlight for finding skeletons in closets - Flowers and chocolates
for enticing elderly relatives into revealing
family stories and letting you copy their old photos
- Tape recorder for interviewing relatives, plus cassettes of
interviews
and favorite songs like "The Great Historical Bum", "I'm My Own
Grandpaw", "Dem Bones", "Grandfather's Clock", "Grandma's Feather
Bed", "Don't Know Much About History",
- Scribbled notes from relatives,
- Portable computer, cellular telephone, modem calculator for
figuring
out dates/ages,
- Portable photocopier,
- Shredder for mail from Halberts, Burkes Peerage, etc.,
- Peanut butter sandwiches, fig bars, bananas, coffee thermos, juice
packs,
- Aspirin or Ibuprofen, allergy tablets, eyedrops,
- Magnifying glass (with light),
- Tombstone tools: brush, trowel, chalk, shaving cream, jug of water,
camera with black-and-white film, rice paper for making
impressions,
- maps - topographic, historical, aerial photos,
- Old photograph collections,
- English-ancestral language dictionaries, English/Italian
dictionary, - Large box of tissues for crying when you learn you have
been chasing
the wrong family (line) for three years,
- Folding chair to use in courthouses that don't believe in chairs -
Satchel for things that don't fit in the backpack
Transport:
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An economical car that gets about 50 miles to the gallon (license
plate says ROOTS)
Possible backgrounds to above photo:
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- a cemetery, a library of old dusty books, a courthouse record room,
a church office, a newspaper's morgue, etc.
- A group of distrustful relatives - :( - perhaps like the pitchfork
family (Grant Wood's American Gothic),
- Holding "root" vegetables -- beets, carrots, rutabegas, etc.
- Cemetery plot in background with unique gravestones - RIP,
interesting crosses, civil war or revolutionary war stones, etc. -
A closet of skeletons :)
I'm not sure who did the work on this but whoever did really made my
day! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did!