Genealogical Humor

Don't go alone when transcribing cemeteries!!!

A woman in KY, an avid cemetery hunter did what no gal should do.
She had heard about a cemetery in the woods long sought after and went
by herself .

It was way off the beaten path. She found the cemetery and was getting ready to mark the names and dates down when sheheard a click on either side of her. She was on her hands and knees.

She looked up and saw a fellow on either side of her with a rifle, cocked.
In her excitement, she had been pulling up grass and weeds to clear thestones. When she glanced down, she saw what she had been pulling ... their"crop" ready for harvesting - the illegal type of hemp!

Thinking quickly(and likely praying a lot!) she turned on the tears and said "Oh, I hopeI'm not trespassing ... I'm just so happy .... THERE'S GRANDPA!" "I'vehunted for his grave for years (sob, sob), and there he is, oh Grandpa!"

They took one look at her and just walked away.

Never go cemetery huntingalone!!!

By the way, she didn't have the foggiest idea of who was buried there, but bet her real grandpa was proud of her!

Author: Sandi Gorin
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I can see this happening at a genealogist's grave.....

Two men were walking home after a party and decided to take ashortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle ofthe cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise comingfrom the misty shadows.

Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.

"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath, "Youscared us half to death -- we thought you were a ghost! What are youdoing working here so late at night?"

"Those fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name!"
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A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave.

The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating,
"Why did you have to die? Why did you have to die?"

The first man approached him and said, "Sir, I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent?"

The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then replied ................."My wife's first husband."

A guy was known among his friends to be very brief and to the point...hereally never said too much. One day, a saleswoman promoting a certain brand of brushes knocked on his door and asked to see his wife, so the guy told her that she wasn't home."Well," the woman said, "could I please wait for her?"The man directed her to the drawing room and left her there for more than three hours.

After feeling really worried, she called out for him and asked, "May I know where your wife is?"" She went to the cemetery," he replied."And when is she coming home?""I don't really know," he said. "She's been there eleven years now."