> THE 13 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.