I got this from another list. I thought it was cute.
Jenny
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Stone" <jdstone(a)lv.rmci.net>
To: <GRAY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:21 PM
Subject: [GRAY] [Family History] The Thirteen Commandments for Names
The Thirteen Commandments for Names:
1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Abel, Richard,
Thomas or William.
2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria,
Sarah, Ida, Virginia or Mae.
3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
4) Thou shalt, after naming your childen from the above lists, never refer
to them by those names again; instead, thou shalt call them by strange
nicknames as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey.
5) Thou shalt not use any middle names on ANY legal documents or census
reports; and whenever possible, use only initials on legal documents.
6) Thou shalt learn to sign all documants illegibly so that your surname
can
be spelled, or misspelled in various ways: Tipper, Topper, Hopper,
Tucker,Tapper.
7) Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generation, make sure that all family
records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, lost at sea or
buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors and vague innuendo
regarding your place of origin.
a) You may have come from: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales ...or
Iran.
b) You may have American Indian Ancestory of the ____tribe.
c) You MAY have descended from one of three brothers that came over from
_____.
9) Thou shalt leave no cemetery records, headstones or headstones with
legible names; nor will any of the dates thereon match those in public
records.
10) Thou shalt leave no family bible with records of birth, marriage or
death.
11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou
must
make the rest of thy records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert,
Bart
or Fred.
12) Thou must also flip thy parents names around when making reference to
them, although "Unknown" is an acceptable alternative.
13) Thou shalt name all generations of children with the identical first
names, as will all of the brothers so that all cousins are named the same.
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