THE 13 COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES
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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 and Sukey and thus
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 your surname can be
spelt, or misspelt variously as: 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, rumours and vague innuendo
regarding your place of origin. eg.
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 be descended from one of three brothers that came 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.
13) Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their
cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers.
Donna King