Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Contribute to the Genealogisms Dictionary

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

After the Friday Night Fun on Geneabloggers Radio (you have to listen to Geneabloggers Radio!), and being encouraged by the chatters with too much time on their hands (since WDYTYA? was a repeat), or too much Irish whiskey (who knew?), I have to do this topic this week.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and, really folks, turnout has been pretty light these last two weeks) - is to:

1)  Recall that some genealogists love to make up new words to define what we do or where we are... we want to make a "Genealogisms Dictionary" so that we all understand what we're writing about.

2)  Make up one or more words that deal with some aspect of genealogy - they could start with genea- or ancest- or end with -ology (we don't care), and then define the word for us. 

3)  Submit your genealogisms(s) as a Comment to this blog post, or write a blog post of your own, or in a Facebook status or comment (please let me know if you do this in a comment here).

Here are some of my genea-logisms contributions to date:

*  genea-logism -- "a newly invented word or phrase from the field of genealogy."

*  Genea-gasm -- "the 'Magic of Genealogy' moment - a chill in my body, a tremendous feeling of thankfulness, and tears of joy.  Usually occurs in a moment of genealogy discovery or extreme happiness."

*  Genea-cave -- "the genealogy work area, surrounded by the ancestral collections of a lifetime of research, where you have all of your genea-stuff."

*  Forrest Gump Principle of Genealogy Research -- "Genealogy research is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to find, but you have to look everywhere your 'genealogy gem' might be hiding"

 *  Genea-crapola -- "unsubstantiated or fabricated online family trees, published books or articles."  synonym: Genea-dreck.

You get the idea!  Go forth and create more genea-logisms.