Thought y'all would like this one. Julia: A good one for RootsWeb. > [Original Message] > From: Don <ddw@digisys.net> > To: John Miller <gayletx@bellsouth.net>; Brenda Martin <bmartin@khsd.k12.ca.us>; DeWanda <IngramDeWan@aol.com>; gwen <gcarroll@onemain.com>; <Leenaum50@aol.com>; <Jokerswilda66205@aol.com>; <Farmofbrown@aol.com>; Melanie <lemmit@3-cities.com>; <fateson@prodigy.net> > Date: 3/25/02 12:33:24 AM > Subject: Fw: off topic-Genealogy 12 Commandments > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Odessa Clayton" <odessahc@hotmail.com> > To: <bettya@brooksdata.net>; <ddw@digisys.net>; <lemmit@3-cities.com>; > <ballinger@acsisp.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:06 AM > Subject: Fwd: off topic-Genealogy 12 Commandments > > > > > > > > > > >From: "Helene Pockrus" <helenepockrus@earthlink.net> > > >Reply-To: "Helene Pockrus" <helenepockrus@earthlink.net> > > >To: "Helene Pockrus" <txphlp44@enol.com> > > >Subject: off topic-Genealogy 12 Commandments > > >Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:44:01 -0700 > > > > > >Blank > > >1. Thou shalt name your male children, James, John, Joseph, Josiah, > > >Abel, Richard, Thomas, William. Thou shalt name thy female children, > > >Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May. > > >2. Thou shalt leave no trace of your female children. > > >3. Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call > > >them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, or Sukey > > >making them difficult to trace. > > >4. 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. > > >5. 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, etc. > > >6. 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. > > >7. Thou shalt propogate misleading legends, rumors and vague innuendos > > >regarding your place of origin: > > > a. You came from: Eng., Ire., Sct., > > > Wales or Iran. > > > b. You may have American Indian > > > ancestry of the ----- tribe > > > c. You may have descended from 3 > > > brothers that came over from --- > > >8. Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible > > >names. > > >9. Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth, marriages > > >or deaths. > > >10. 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. > > >11. Thou shalt always flip thy parent's names when making reference to > > >them, although "unknown" or a blank space is an acceptable alternative. > > >12. Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males and dozens of their > > >cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > > > > > --- kS2Oc5yKeBE= dpVpTiYLRebzj//JP08P3A== --- mijojohn@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.