THE GENEALOGY VIRUS

Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, places and passenger lists.

Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children.

Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses.

Has compulsion to write letters.

Swears at the postie when she/he doesn't leave mail.

Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote desolate country areas.

Makes secret night calls.

Hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to self.

Has a strange faraway look in eyes.