Thanks for telling it like it is , Marie! Henry Hydenwel is lucky we can't Tar and Feather dead spirits. : - ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "marie sellers hollinger" <[email protected]> To: "SELLERS" <[email protected]>; "HOLLINGER" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:09 PM Subject: [SELLERS] 1852 New Years resolutions > > >> 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS >> >> TO SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES. >> >> >> It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry Hydenwel sits at his desk by >> candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to writes his >> New Year's resolutions. >> >> 1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name >> at least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to >> give the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming >> year. >> >> 2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same >> names >> that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row. >> >> 3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never >> list the same age or birth year twice on any document. >> >> 4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different >> church -- >> either in a different faith or in a different parish. Every third child >> will not be baptized at all or will be baptized by an itinerant minister >> who keeps no records. >> >> 5. I resolve to move to a new town, new county, or new state at least >> once >> every 10 years -- just before those pesky enumerators come around asking >> silly questions. >> >> 6. I will make every attempt to reside in counties and towns where no >> vital >> records are maintained or where the courthouse burns down every few >> years. >> >> 7. I resolve to join an obscure religious cult that does not believe >> in record keeping or in participating in military service. >> >> 8. When the tax collector comes to my door, I'll loan him my pen, >> which >> has >> been dipped in rapidly fading blue ink. >> >> 9. I resolve that if my beloved wife Mary should die, I will marry >> another >> Mary. >> >> 10. I resolve not to make a will. Who needs to spend money on a >> lawyer >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >