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Genealogy Commandments
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| 1 |
Thou
shalt name your male children: |
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James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel,
Richard, Thomas, William |
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Thou shalt name your female children: |
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Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria,
Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May |
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| 3 |
Thou shalt leave NO trace of your
female children. |
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| 4 |
Thou
shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them
by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey, thereby making them difficult to trace. |
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Thou
shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census
reports, and only where necessary,
may you use (only) initials on legal documents. |
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| 6 |
Thou
shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname
can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways:
Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks. |
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Thou
shalt, after no more than three generations, make sure that all
family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a courthouse fire,
or buried so that NO future trace of them can be found. |
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| 8 |
Thou
shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, vague innuendo
regarding your place of origination: |
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A) England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
or… Iran.? |
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B)
Native American ancestry of the tribe of ….. ?? |
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C) Descended from one
of the three brothers that came over from…. |
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| 9 |
Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records
or headstones with legible names. |
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| 10 |
Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with
records of births, marriages or deaths |
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| 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. |
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| 12 |
Thou
must also flip they parents'
names when making reference to them, although
"Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative. |
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| 13 |
Thou
shalt name at least five generations of males, and dozens of their
cousins, with identical names in order to totally confuse
researchers! |
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(Author
unknown)
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