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Subject: Rules for Ancestors
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:19:02 EDT

Rules for Ancestors


And they were SO good at following them!
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> (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, Hix,
> Hixe, Hucks, Kicks or Robinson, Robertson, Robison, Roberson,
> Robuson, Robson, Dobson.
>
> (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, 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 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.
>
> Author unknown.
>
>

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