Received this from another list and reminded me of some problems we have run into with our research. Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did. Still stuck of James William QUEEN and Elizabeth BEST, Charlton Queen -----Original Message----- From: John D. Stone <jdstone@lv.rmci.net> To: GRAY-L@rootsweb.com <GRAY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: [GRAY] [Family History] The Thirteen Commandments for Names >The Thirteen Commandments for Names: > >1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Abel, Richard, >Thomas or William. > >2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, >Sarah, Ida, Virginia or Mae. > >3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children. > >4) Thou shalt, after naming your childen from the above lists, never refer >to them by those names again; instead, thou shalt call them by strange >nicknames as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey. > >5) Thou shalt not use any middle names on ANY legal documents or census >reports; and whenever possible, use only initials on legal documents. > >6) Thou shalt learn to sign all documants illegibly so that your surname can >be spelled, or misspelled in various ways: Tipper, Topper, Hopper, >Tucker,Tapper. > >7) Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generation, make sure that all family >records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, lost at sea 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 Ancestory of the ____tribe. > c) You MAY have descended from one of three brothers that came over from >_____. > >9) Thou shalt leave no cemetery records, headstones or headstones with >legible names; nor will any of the dates thereon match those in public >records. > >10) Thou shalt leave no family bible with records of birth, marriage or >death. > >11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou must >make the rest of thy records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart >or Fred. > >12) Thou must also flip thy parents names around when making reference to >them, although "Unknown" is an acceptable alternative. > >13) Thou shalt name all generations of children with the identical first >names, as will all of the brothers so that all cousins are named the same. > > >==== GRAY Mailing List ==== > If you're not already a Rootsweb member, please join with us! >RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >