THE OUTHOUSE

GENEALOGY TAGLINES	NOTICE: If you have ANY problems viewing this page due to the background showing thru----	PRE-NEED CASKET USES
TOMBSTONE HUMOR	Our Family Outhouse Still in Service - 2001	Old Genealogist never die they just loose their census!
800 X 600		Ode To The Little Brown Shack
Remember.. we're census researchers.. not ordinary idiots!!		OUTHOUSE STORIES & OUTHOUSE LINKS
FUNNY NAMES	" Walking After Midnight"	OLD SAYINGS
SOUTHERN Astrological Signs	Random Tagline Generator	RESEARCH FUNNIES

While viewing LDS microfilm a few months ago I came across this entry: Jane Pitchfork b. Abt 1680, married Abraham Broom, Aug 23 1701. (I wonder what they named their children?)	One of the first jokes I heard about genealogy was about the man who paid a genealogist $500 to look up the family history....then paid him another $1000 to keep quiet about it! ----------- The will you need is in the safe on board the Titanic.	Obits are where people are just dying for you to read about them. What a grave situation!
		One of my ancestors is listed in various census records as having been born in 3 different states - his mother must have been one confused and traveling lady!
A young lady once remarked that her ancestors spent 40 years roaming in the wilderness. Then she explained Thats because the men were too stuborn to stop and ask directions!	I've heard that if you help someone with their research, you will be admitted to genealogy heaven. May be the close as some people get.	I started researching our family to answer my young son's questions and quickly got hooked. Finding a sitter so that I could go to the library began to occupy much time off. Finally the son complained . When I explained that I was doing it to find out the answers to his questions, he replied, "Well, I didn't want to know THAT much."
	I looked up my family tree and found out I was a sap!

Another tombstone reads, "Here lies my wife Here let her lie Now she has peace And so do I	Found this on the headstone of a grave in an old cemetary: "ANNA PERRY" "The children of Israel wanted bread The Lord gave them manna Parson Perry wanted a wife The Devil gave him Anna"
Here lies John B. Cudd, DMD (dentist) filling his last cavity.	GRAVE MARKER IN CEMETARY IN COVINGTON, VIRGINIA. "I MADE A LOT OF DEALS IN MY LIFETIME BUT I SURE WENT IN THE HOLE ON THIS ONE"
How about the tombstone in Key West, Fl., which reads "I told you I was sick!"
My husband has started calling cemeteries "Ancestor Farms	Cemetery, Benton AR """"A loving husband, caring father and a DAMNED GOOD COON HUNTER""""""""""

He gave a researcher $100 To trace his family tree; Then he gave him $500 To keep quiet his discovery!	I recently found one in Penn that listed the cause of death as,"old and tired" and one that was listed,"out of breath", and other listed only as, "found in the road."
"Yours is the only last name not found amount the 3 billion in the world-famous Mormon archives in Salt Lake City!"	While searching in the 1900 Ms. Census I found a 50 yr old woman living with her sister and Brother-in- law. Under occupation it listed "Does as she pleases". Sounds like her brother- in - law didn't care too much for her.
The critical link in your family tree - when you finally discover it - is named "Smith".	The 37 volume, sixteen thousand page history of your county of origin ISN"T INDEXED

GENEALOGY POX

WARNING: Very contagious to adults.

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression and is sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking for records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mail carrier when s/he does not leave mail.

Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret calls at night. Hides phone bills.

TREATMENT: There is no known cure. Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the house where s/he can be alone with his/her computer.

REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is.....the sicker the patient gets, the more s/he enjoys it!

OLD SAYINGS

We've enjoyed the "OldSayings" on some of the mailing lists so I thought I would include some here for others to enjoy.

My Grandpaw Clark always said "You teach children to walk and to walk away."
.....not run away to duck responsibilities, ...not taken away by the law....not wisk away by some unscrupulous lover...but to walk away a mature young man or woman.
Another Paw Clark saying...."You live, you learn, and then you die."

PS: My personal saying that scrolls across my computer screen as a screen saver is ...."I've done so much, with so little, for so long, that I can do almost anything, with nothing, in no time flat." RootsLady@rootslady.com

"Drive it in the ground and bark at the hole."

Vicki Spencer

This old saying refers to someone talking a subject to death, then shaking some more life into it so he can talk it to death again.

About 200 genealogist were attending a lecture given by Dr. George Schweitzer, if you ever get a chance to hear him, don't pass it up. He is great. He used the story example of -- Pa was going out to plow the North-40 and he picked up Ole Betsy (his rifle) and said "Ma, I'll be back about supper time, ifen the Creeks don't rise. " (Pa was referring to a rather hostile group of Native Americans - Creek Indians.) Dixie Bennett

Roving Eye
SMILE !!

How about:
1. "Gotta lick that calf again"
2. "You've gotten enought miles outta that road!"

Genea Burnaman

"Jumpy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."

"Madder than an old wet hen."

"Dumber than a fencepost."

"I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them looking for me!"
Sue Wilson

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I can remember making and eating "clabber".... the raw milk was set out overnight in front of the fire and the next morning it would have congealed into clabber. A little sugar added made a treat akin to yogurt.
Dorothy Chance

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Bill (William Ward)
PS: "Don't get your dander up at me."

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At hand is a letter addressed to my name from a genealogy researcher who claims to have traced my family tree. He certainly knows how to get your attention. It begans: "Your Majesty".

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Where's the PROfF:
InSaniTy runS in mY fAmiLy.

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I once came across occupation of deceased as "drunkard" submitted needless to say by his wife!

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I hope it doesn't take too long for the circles to disappear and the blood in your legs to start circulating again!!

Well, the ol' OUTHOUSE has finally earned it's own VisitorBook!! I guess we could call it the "PRIVY GAZZETTE" Please Sign and/or Read it below.

So grab a rusty nail and scratch me a note or leave a "cute" one right here on the wall! Please keep it very genealogy or family related (old sayings, odd names, site comments etc.) and KEEP IT CLEAN! I don't like having to scrub the walls in this place. Then the next person availing themselves of our facility can take a gander at it too.

BTW: I just started "collecting" pics of Outhouses, Outhouse stories & Outhouse links too!
If you find any good ones send em' to me or send me the URL.

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OUTHOUSE SAMPLER Below is a sampling of what you will find in.... THE OUTHOUSE
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A GENEALOGIST WHEN:
When your kids groan if you slow down near a cemetery.	When your favorite pastime is hanging around cemeteries.
When you start looking at the graffitti on the outhouse or bathroom walls for surnames!!!	When Santa Claus asks you what you want for Christmas and you give him a list of Death Certificates. HO HO HO.......

My dentist Dr. Chandler had a daughter Crystal. Imagine the response when Crystal Chandler married Robert Lear. She became Crystal Chandler Lear.	I got an uncle named Buck Deaux.
My husband has an ancestor named Curtin who married a Ring. Does that make their children curtain rings?	Dilly Johnson marrys Bill Pickle, now she's "Dilly Pickle"