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Subject: [MORAY-CGA] (no subject)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:16:58 EDT

I don't do this very often, but it's just too good to pass up. So forgive
ye olde listowner from varying from genealogy ... but, well, it really is.
This was forwarded to me by one of our listers. Sandi

(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   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.

(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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