So funny! Crystal A. Bingham, OT Manhattan, KS Vizslas: Denali Gold & Peaches 'n Cream; cats Bojangles and Nuisance Kitty Res Motto: To understand the living you must commune with the dead. < THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES: (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, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, > Hucks, Kicks > > (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, & 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 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.