Boy did someone hit the nail on the head!! This is definitely my family. Marlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hogan" <dhogan@porterville.k12.ca.us> To: <IRISH-AMERICAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 15 September 2004 11:23 AM Subject: [Irish-American] Fwd: Ancestors guide to naming From another list, definitely applies to Irish gen. Dan Hogan Begin forwarded message: > > > 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. > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc.