Genealogy Chat

Some words for those members who, sometimes, find their genealogical interest a little too much to bear.

If you can keep your head while some about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on those new If you can trust yourself when records doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too If you can wait on others and not be tired by waiting Or, being lied to, don't deal with lies Or on being baited, don't be deterred by baiting And yet don't sound too smug nor talk too wise If you can dream a lineage back to Adam, and not make dreams your Master If you can think all through, but not make thoughts your aim If you can sit fruitlessly for days with 1837 and Ancestry And treat those two supporters with more of the same If you can bear to search on behalf of ungrateful beseechers And receive no credit from such fools Or watch the things you gave your time for vanish But carry on, and help others with the same and trusty tools If you can make one heap of all your searchings And risk it all on a certificate of £7 cost And lose, and start again at your beginnings And complain to none about your loss If you can share your tree with those unknown And their reply is to thumb their nose But not be deterred by the manners they have shown And when asked again by others, say ' sure, here goes ' If you can languish in ROs and keep your virtue Or dream of finding Kings, but remain proud of your common touch If neither blind alleys or brick walls can hurt you If you respect all leads........but none too much If you can fill each unforgiving minute With every scrap of knowledge to achieve your end Then yours will be contentment, and all that there goes with it And, which is more....................you'll be admired my friend G ( with some help from RK )

That's cool :)