Isn't that true Kathi ----- Original Message ----- From: <Nspctr1@aol.com> To: <TYLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:48 PM Subject: A Break From the Routine > If the rest of you are having the same problem as I have with John, Henry and > Moses you may find this as funny as I did: > > THE THIRTEEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES: > > (1) Thou shalt only name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Jonathan, > Richard, Thomas or William > > (2) Thou shalt only name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Sarah > or Virginia > > (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 as > difficult to trace as possible. > > (5) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census > reports, and use only initials on all 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 > > (7) Thou shalt, after no more than 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 on a > ship 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 is an acceptable alternative. > > (13) Thou shalt name at least 5 succeeding generations of males, and dozens > of their cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers. > > AMEN! >