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From: "aria99" <>
Subject: Off Topic, but Worth IT. .
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:27:22 -0500

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From: Ken Reeder <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:00 PM
Subject: [KYCARTER] another Thou Shalt Not . . . .


>'Borrowed' from another list.
>
>My 'favorite' is JOHN - "WHERE THE *)%@& DID YOU COME FROM AND WHERE
>DID YOU GO, GGGGgrand JOHN?"
>=============
>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES:
>
>(1). Thou shalt name your male children:
>James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas, William
>
>(2) Thou shalt name your female children:
>Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May
>
>(3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
>
>(4) Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call
>them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly,
>Sukey.---making them difficult to trace.
>
>(5) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or
>census reports, and only where necessary, you may use only initials on
>legal documents.
>
>(6)Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your
>surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks,
>Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks
>
>(7) Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make sure that all
>family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or
>buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
>
>(8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendo
>regarding your place origination
>
>(A) you may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales....or
>Iran.
>(B) you may have American Indian ancestry of the______tribe......
>(C) You may have descended from one of three brothers that came over
>from______
>
>(9) Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible
>names.
>
>(10) Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth, marriages,
>or deaths.
>
>(11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou
>must make all the rest of thy records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA,
>AL, Bert, Bart, or Alfred.
>
>(12) Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making reference to
>them, although "Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative.
>
>And my own personal addition:
>
>Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their
>cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers.
>
>And don't forget to change you surname all together. 'Now I dare them
>to find me.'
>
>

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