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From: "Barb and Don" <>
Subject: [CARPENTER] Genealogist Commandments
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:02:45 -0500

Hi Everyone,

Had to pass this along in case someone hasn't seen it. Funny! Sure hope no one minds!

Barb



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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:08:07 EST
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Subject: Genealogist Commandments

We've all encountered these Genealogy Commandments, haven't we?

(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, and 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 , 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 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 ??

(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.

(13)Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males,
and dozens of their cousins with identical names in
order to totally confuse researchers.

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