{"id":51713,"date":"2019-07-25T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=51713"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:40:32","slug":"kin-jokes-for-genealogists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/kin-jokes-for-genealogists.html","title":{"rendered":"Kin Jokes for Genealogists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak looks through old newspapers to find jokes our ancestors told about kin. Mary is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background.<\/em><\/p>\n

Judging from how many kin jokes I find in old newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I am quite certain my forebears were humorists in kin-dred spirit.<\/p>\n

Kin Jokes<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, who else sat around and came up with jokes like these? I\u2019ve actually got a lot more that will show up in later posts.<\/p>\n

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(Is the text in this graphic too small for you to read? If so, use your browser\u2019s zoom feature to enlarge it. Or, for your convenience, I\u2019ve reprinted these kin jokes at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

And not only that, if DNA-testing scientists can determine the likelihood that someone has straight or curly hair, or whether or not someone prefers chocolate over vanilla, it\u2019s only a matter of time before they prove that family historians really did inherit a genealogy gene!<\/p>\n

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So, in that \u201cspirit\u201d I present a few kin jokes to brighten your day.<\/p>\n