I sent a message what is the Twelve commandments for names that sounds like it should have been posted years ago. It would help me lots thanks Louise Righman Ethel Swiger wrote: > THE TWELVE 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 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, & 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. > > Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their > cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237