I think you forgot George and Henry for #1. I thought it was 5 brothers. (grin) [email protected] wrote: > > THE TEN 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. > > ==== YOUNG Mailing List ==== > Remember that genealogy is not the search for the rich and famous. > The list owner is at [email protected] > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi