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From: CJS & SJS <>
Subject: GENEALOGY POX - very contagious to adults
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:48:34 -0500

Found the following in one of the old Texas publications & wanted to share to see if any others are infected:

WARNING: GENEALOGY POX - VERY CONTAGIOUS TO ADULTS

SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, kinships & places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse & children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries & courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins & remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has strange, faraway look in eye. NO KNOWN CURE.

TREATMENT: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines & be given a quiet corner in the house where he can be alone.

REMARKS: The usual nature of this disease is the sicker the patient gets, the more he enjoyes it.

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