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From: "Davidson" <>
Subject: [GAFORSYT-L] The Ten Commandments for Names
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:20:02 -0500

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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.

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