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Old 12-11-2018, 02:40 PM
 
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I have not read through all the replies here but most definitely family history (genealogy) has got to be a very fast dying hobby.
Quite the opposite. Since the digitization of records, which expands every year, genealogy has been growing. Whole businesses, e.g. ancestry.com. exist to enable the hobby. More and more records are now available and used - more than an old time genealogist could ever hope to find due to the simple searching now enabled by character recognition. Not only can you figure out your great grandparents back four x easily - you can see what jobs they did, where they lived, whether they made the newspapers, were they awarded medals or discharged dishonorably, school discharges and admissions, work house records, ship manifests - it goes on and on. All from the computer.
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Old 12-12-2018, 10:13 PM
 
Location: 404
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When some clothes were too torn to repair I disassembled them by pulling out each thread, in some year of high school. I may be the only person who ever had that hobby.
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Old 12-12-2018, 11:12 PM
 
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Absolutely. I've been working on a 1/200 scale battleship since last fall; between the kit and an aftermarket detail set I'm into it over $500 bucks. It will probably take a year to finish too... definitely not kid's stuff!
If my math is correct, that would make it over four feet long? Wow. What ship? It would be interesting to see a photo of it when done.

When I was a kid, I was just in awe of U.S. naval power, I remember getting a (Revell?) plastic model of the Enterprise (1960's nuclear carrier, CVN 63?) for Christmas, I think the cost of the kit was ten bucks, it was about 3' long when finished. I remember fantasizing about putting it on water, filling it with firecrackers, matchheads, and flares, and sending it to Davy Jones' locker, but no doubt some darned adult put the kibosh on that idea. Unfortunately, I wasn't a very good model builder; too little patience, and too much glue were my downfalls.
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Old 01-31-2019, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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Are you kidding!?! According to a relatively recent Time Magazine article and ABC News "...genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening." Ancestry sold more than 1.4 million AncestryDNA kits (at $99 per kit) in the fourth quarter of 2016 alone. Genealogy is definitely NOT dying out. It's growing every year.
IMO that is very sad. Gardening I could go along with since you can grow some healthy food, but genealogy--- wow! What a waste of time.
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Old 02-18-2019, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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IMO that is very sad. Gardening I could go along with since you can grow some healthy food, but genealogy--- wow! What a waste of time.
Posting on City-Data isn't sometimes a waste of time? Watching movies is a waste of time. Reading works of fiction is a waste of time.

I don't consider learning something a waste of time.
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Old 02-20-2019, 07:10 PM
 
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I was going to say posting on city data but apparently for many this is not true.

Good grief people have time on their hands.
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Old 02-20-2019, 07:11 PM
 
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IMO that is very sad. Gardening I could go along with since you can grow some healthy food, but genealogy--- wow! What a waste of time.
Perhaps in your case.....
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Old 02-20-2019, 07:15 PM
 
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Posting on City-Data isn't sometimes a waste of time? Watching movies is a waste of time. Reading works of fiction is a waste of time.

I don't consider learning something a waste of time.
Just drink Beer and live in PA.......
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Old 02-21-2019, 11:37 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Just drink Beer and live in PA.......
I've done that.
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Old 02-22-2019, 03:36 PM
 
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It is shocking how altruistic some Americans (Brits and Germans) are. I have experienced that a lot. And I always try to pay back as much as I can.
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