--part1_96.c2fe767.27496a57_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_96.c2fe767.27496a57_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xd01.mx.aol.com (rly-xd01.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.166]) by air-xd05.mail.aol.com (v77.14) with ESMTP; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:24:39 -0500 Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-xd01.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:24:24 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eAJHO0h10934; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:24:00 -0800 Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:24:00 -0800 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sun Nov 19 09:23:59 2000 From: "Dorothy Gray" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:24:52 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: [TNMACON] Fw: [Fwd:Rules for genealogy Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1707 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > Subject: [Fwd:Rules for genealogy > Date: Sunday, November 19, 2000 9:20 AM > > > > > > > > Rules For Genealogy > > > ------------------- > > > 1. Treat the brothers and sisters of your ancestors as equals ... > > > even if > > > some of them were in jail. > > > 2. Death certificates are rarely filled in by the person who died. > > > 3. When visiting a funeral home, wear old clothes, no make-up, and > > > look like you have about a week to live ... the funeral director > > > will give you anything you ask if he thinks you may be a customer > > > soon. > > > 4. The cemetery where your ancestor was buried does not have > > > perpetual care, has no office, is accessible only by a muddy road, > > > has snakes, tall grass, and lots of bugs ... and many of the old > > > gravestones are in broken pieces, stacked in a corner under a pile > > > of dirt. > > > 5. A Social Security form SS-5 is better than a birth certificate > > > because few people had anything to do with the information on their > > > own birth certificate. > > > 6. The application for a death certificate you want insists that > > > you provide the maiden name of the deceased's mother ... which is > > > exactly what you don't know and is the reason you are trying to get > > > the death certificate in the first place. > > > 7. If you call Social Security and ask where to write for a birth > > > certificate, tell them it is for yourself ... they won't help you if > > > you say