A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots. A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples. The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. It's a contagious disease, but we love it.
Genealogists are time unravelers.
A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor. So far I only have a few thousand. I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower. Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.