Edna, Reciprocated greetings to you and yours. Shades of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" there. ( Just been cerealised - shredded tweet, of course! - by the Beeb ) cheers Phil. In wet, windy, wiltshire Alliteration rules OK > > From: "Edna" <ekbrit@rogers.com> > Date: 2005/12/30 Fri PM 04:19:50 GMT > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SoG] 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS > > With many thanks to all who have helped me with my WORTH, BLAKE, HELLYER, KNIGHT trees. > > Healthy New Year! > > Edna - sunny Ottawa > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > NEWS FLASH......... 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES. > It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry HYDENWELL 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? > > Phil Warn Wootton Bassett Swindon ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information