A little humor I found so true!
Researching made hard
Got this from another list; loved it; as it is so very true
<< 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.
>
> And my own personal addition:
>
> Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their
cousins
> with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers.
>