You know you're a genealogist when...
... you are more interested in the credits at the end of a TV show than in the show itself
...you're reading a family saga-type book and you look for a pedigree chart at the front. And if there isn't one, you draw one as you go along.
...a dear friend announces they are going to have a romantic wedding on a tropical island, and before congratulating them you make sure they know about lodging a copy of their marriage certificate with the GRO.
...Who Do You Think You Are? is on TV so you have Ancestry, Findmypast, FamilySearch etc open on separate tabs on your laptop, to check the research while you watch.
...it's your birthday soon so you ask for a couple of death certificates, some ScotlandsPeople credits, acid-free storage boxes and a Flip-Pal scanner.
...you never knew you could use a spreadsheet for financial calculations, you thought it was for indexing parish register transcripts.
...you tell your workmates you'll be spending two weeks in Utah in the middle of winter, and are surprised when they ask if you are going ski-ing.
...the first thing you think of when someone says 1812 isn't Tchaikovsky's overture, or even a war in North America, but Rose's 'Act for the better regulating and preserving Parish and other Registers'.
...you can't read a road map, but you know the Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers like the back of your hand.
...you get chatting with a telesales person, and at the end of the conversation you've persuaded them they should start tracing their family tree, and they haven't sold you a thing.
