The Geneatweets: 23/09/2010

10 of the week's weirdest, funniest, and most intriguing genealogy tweets.

Enjoy!

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"My family history is more turbulent than most." @MariahCarey (@AllAboutMariah)

Heritage Day. To honour my ancestry, I dressed as a banker-slash-accountant. It’s less scary than a woad-daubed Celtic warrior princess (@caryljr)

AND DA BAD PART ABOUT IT MY FAMILY GOT A HISTORY OF SEEING GHOST LOL #ImStraight (@princethegreat)

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. -- Dean william R. Inge (@EarlMorrison)

Scary thought that bums me: I have already gone through approx. 30% of my life when looking at family history.. What have I accomplished? (@FroMagnumXL) Editor’s Note: You’ve made it onto the MyHeritage blog, that’s something!

@XerxesWolf genealogy? you take a class on genealogy? (@ruffuswuff)

My Grandfather told me, It’s better to have a few than a million.... redundant thoughts. Creativity + Personal Touch = Superb Individuality (@cupidsbusiness)

Spent ages looking for ancestry info last night. History is fascinating. I should, like, do a degree in it or something .... (@Jackie1066)

one thing learned on cemetery walk, local mass murder is longest unsolved murder in Alberta. Took place in 1918. #alberta #genealogy (@treesrch)

Order som patrezzy while talkin to this brezzy. Brushin off my 3piece I make dis look to easy. Papa was a rollin stone its in my ancestry (@cespoe) Editors Note: These are actually lyrics to a song by Rapper Jay-Z

@rjmcewan @serendipitynz genealogy one of my passions too about 7 years long...never ends (@hesperidesNZ)