Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote, desolate areas. Sits for hours in back rooms at courthouses going through old dusty records until your eyes get crossed and you can't straighten up. Hide phone bills from spouse and mumble to your self. Have a strange faraway look in your eyes. There is no known cure, only treatment.
Medication is useless.
Disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy work shops, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quite corner in the house where they can be alone. That gives you an entry of 18890506. This gives you a result of 1879797. Now subtract 8870 to correct the months and days.