Rules for our Ancestors!

[linell]

Rules For Our Ancestors



(1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel,
Daniel, Richard, Thomas and William.

(2) Thou shalt name your female children: Betty, Elizabeth, Mary, Jane,
Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, Ginny, Jenny and May. It is always good
to name them Martha Elizabeth and refer to them in all documents as Jenny
Mae.

(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, Billy Bob or
Zeke, ---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. Also be certain to use different dates on successive census as
well as changing the country of origin.

(6)Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can
be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hics, Hix, Hixes, Hucks,
or Kicks, and whether you can write or not, use an X whenever possible.

(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. Also if they are found be sure they
have been thoroughly water-soaked, torn and have large pieces missing.

(8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendos
regarding your place of 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, but always have cousins or aunts who have seen it.

(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, Alfred,
Bert, Bart, or Jimmy L.

(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.

(14) Last but not least, embellish all stories and enter dates, which
indicate that all children are born to twelve year old girls fathered by
eighty-year-old husbands.

[peterd]

sounds about right, and you forgot one,
They shall get married at least 3 times and have 21 kids calling at least one from each marriage the same name

[linell]

Yeah too true Peterd, must be some others we can think of, like don't presume Marriage Witnesses are related, and do presume Visitors, Lodgers and Boarders are infact related linell.

[Northern Lass]

not read that one before good un Linell!

[mallosa]

Yeh, nice one linell !

[gardener]

My lot kept most of those rules which is odd when you think how many others they broke!
Yes, I am here too. better late than never

[ellie]

LOL yes thats absolutely spot on!