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From: Glory Bee <>
Subject: Humor in researhing--sharing again
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:26:19 -0700

Humor as we research. Much to be said in agreement with
the following comments. almost factual!
from another list.. thanks Richard.
glorybee
I think some of our ancestors definitely applied these rules ~~


ANCESTORS GUIDE TO NAMING

1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John,
Joseph, Abel, Richard, Thomas or William.

2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth,
Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia or Mae.

3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.

4) Even after naming your children using the above
lists, thou shalt never refer to them by those names
again; instead, thou shalt call them by strange
nicknames, such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, and Sukey.

5) Thou shalt not use any middle names on ANY legal
documents or census reports and whenever possible,
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: Tipper, Topper, Hopper, Tucker, Tapper.

7) Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generation, make
sure that all family records are lost, misplaced,
burned in a court house fire, lost at sea or buried so
that NO future trace of them can be found.

8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors and
vague innuendo regarding your place of origin:
a) You MAY have come from England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales ... or Iran.
b) You MAY have American Indian Ancestry.
c) You MAY be descended from one of three brothers
that came over.

9) Thou shalt leave no cemetery records, or headstones
with legible names; nor will any of the dates thereon match
those in any public records.

10) Thou shalt leave no family bible with records of
birth, marriage or death.

11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born
James Albert, thou must make the rest of thy records
in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart or Fred.

12) Thou must also flip thy parent's names around when
making reference to them, although "Unknown" is an
acceptable alternative.

13) Thou shalt name all generations of children with
the identical first names, as will all of your
brothers so that all cousins are named the same.

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