The Ten Commandments of Names

[Irene]

Originally posted: 01 Oct 2007 04:11 pm

Sent to me by Harold in Canada!

The Ten Commandments of Names



1. Thou shalt name thy male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas and William.



2. Thou shalt name thy female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia and May.



3. Thou shalt leave NO trace of thy female children.



4. Thou shalt, after naming thy children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly and 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, thou mayst use only initials on legal documents.



6. Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that thy surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks and Kicks.



7. Thou shalt, after no more than 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 and vague innuendo regarding thy place of origination



9. You may have come from: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. . Or Iran.



10. You may have American Indian ancestry of the tribe . . .



11. You may have descended from one of three brothers that came over from. .



12. Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names.



13. Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of births, marriages or deaths.



14. 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.



15. Thou must also flip thy parent’s names when making reference to them, although ‘Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative.

Number 7 actually happened to our Australian branch - when (of all things) an ice house burned down.

But it keeps us out of mischief!

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