LMAO reading this! How very true - sounds like the ancestors I'm researching. ;) Michele Gibson Pierson -----Original Message----- >From: vivian brandal <wintertime@netonecom.net> >Sent: Feb 21, 2007 11:33 AM >Subject: [PACLEARF] Fw: The 13 Commandments for Ancestors] >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subject: The 13 Commandments for Ancestors > >THE 13 COMMANDMENTS FOR ANCESTORS >------------------------------------------- >1. Thou shalt name thy male children; James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, >Richard, Robert, William and Thomas. >2. Thou shalt name thy female children; Rebecca, Susannah, Elizabeth, >Margaret, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, Maud and Matilda. >3. Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children. >4. Thou shalt, after naming thy children from the above lists, call them by >strange nicknames such as; Ike, Tub, Eli, Polly, Mollie, Fannie, Sally, >Sudey and Sukey, --making them difficult to trace. >5. Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census >reports, and only when necessary you may use only initials on legal >documents. >6. Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that thy surname can >be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways; Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks, >or Robertson, Robinson, Roberson, Robuson, Robson, Dobson. >7. Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generations, make sure that all family >records are lost, misplaced, burned in a courthouse 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 Native American ancestry of the ___ tribe . . . >(C) You may have descended from ONE of three brothers who came over from >____. >9. Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names. >10. Thou shalt leave NO family Bibles with records of birth, marriages or >deaths. >11. Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born John Albert, thou must >make all the rest of the records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, >Bart or Alfred. >12. Thou must also flip thy parents' names when making references 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. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com