Is it just me or are the questions getting boring on GENEALOGY, they all seem to be about names and places.?

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Or the askers want to know about how much ,irish, french, spanish, english, american, mexican, or what ever in their blood. Bring on the PROPER questions for a change.

No you misunderstood my question. Genealogy is a really interesting subject, but I think some of the questions for example the one about Mary Quant perfume, and whats lala's other name? your not honestly trying to say thats GENEALOGY are you.

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.....thats kinda what Genealogy involves..?

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Huh! Genealogy is "who's your daddy?" and your mommy and their daddy and mommy and so on and so forth. Yes, it is about how much Irish, French, Spanish, English, Mexican and so forth, but not American, unless you are referring to the indiginous peoples commonly called Indians.
But, it is so much more: occupations, war, peace, politics, religion...and Sex! Lots of sex! Or, none of us would be here. It is about time, space, countries, immigration, emigration...and numbers. It is all about the powers of 2.
You had 2 parents, each of them had 2 parents, and so on. By the time you go back 30 generations, that would be more people than live on the planet today! Wow! That means, your ancestors married your ancestors...(and mine). Another way to phrase that is to say those kissing cousins went further than kissing! Check out ancestry.com or any of the others. Then check out family tree DNA, take a swab test, and you can find out where your momma came from (French, Spanish, what ever) and also your dadda.

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The interesting questions are on the real genealogy boards. GenForum and Ancestry have thousands of boards, some devoted to surnames (GenForum has 10,000 or so, with the admonition that they serve the obvious variants; Ancestry has 50,000 or more, one for each variant.) They both have one for each county in the US, Ireland, Scotland and England, as well as one for each state / province in each English-speaking country, and at least one for every country in the world.

The typical YA question is from a kid who loses interest when they find out they can't download a 12-generation family tree, with a family coat of arms, as easily as they can download a catchy ring tone.

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Some of these people probably don't know where to direct their questions. Also you can just ask a question and a list will come up of particular sub categories for you to choose and it might be for the ones that come up genealogy seems to be the best choice.

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*SIGH*
I think you forget where you are... this is yahoo answers. It is an extremely generic place, and the highest percentage of questions are going to be from those who are NEW to research.
Names, origins, family crests, so forth are all pretty standard to new persons, as they relate to what they know about family. It isn't until you actually get into research, that it gets clear what these topics mean to research, or if they are even related. For many new persons, it is necessary to kindly introduce them to what research IS, why everything online isn't reliable, etc. I think lots of new persons, who have had NO exposure to the resources, are delighted to see how quickly some answers can be found... and the fun comes from them asking "whoa! how did you do that? show me where to go".
Experienced researchers already know that solid answers are elsewhere, online or off. The "hard core" ones are here to extend a friendly hand to the rest, and maybe entice them into the fun. Obviously, that involves a bit of patience.
And I actually think your question is worthwhile, to air a few points.
And yes.. there are questions that don't belong in this category. It does absolutely no harm to anyone, and isn't worth the time to get upset over.

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Geneology IS about names and places.