Rules for Ancestors And they were SO good at following them! > > (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. > >