2) When I meet a new person, see the credits on a show or hear a name on the news, I mentally light up when their surname is one that is in my tree and try to remember where that name appears.
3) Thou shalt not simply send us money and get a death certificate in return! If the death was between this date and this date go this other website, click this specific link, enter your phone number and zip code and get redirected to this other website where they might decide you don't need to pay for a membership to see the record. If the death was between this date and this date and you are not the child of the deceased (in the 1920s) ancestor, no death certificate for you! If the date was between this date and this date and in this specific city, they are kept in a vault beneath the earth and you need to call this phone number and speak to the nice dwarven lady to get them. And finally, if the death was between this date and this date, mail a money order for $15 and a blood sample from your second born to this address. All alien descendants will be disqualified.
4) I can rattle off three generations of health history and cause of death to my doctor and I am not a hypochondriac.
