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Rules for ancestors

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 3 Sep 2024 16:27

:-D :-D

also

Thou shalt move between census and totally forget where each child is born thereby creating a need for huge searches to find them.

If in Wales, endeavour to find a spouse with your surname, Davies marrying Davies and Jenkins marrying Jenkins make good challenges. :-|

PatW

PatW Report 3 Sep 2024 15:26

Brilliant.
Pat

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 3 Sep 2024 09:42

I was shown this years ago - thank you for reminding me if the rules :-D

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 3 Sep 2024 09:35

:-D :-D :-D

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Sep 2024 08:52

Rules for Ancestors

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/bumperstickers.html

(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, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks or Robinson, Robertson, Robison, Roberson, Robuson, Robson, Dobson.

(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, and vague innuendo regarding your place of origin:
(A) you may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales.... or Iran.
(B) you may have Maori ancestry (replace with American Indian...)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.

(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) If thy wife shall die before you, thou may only be wed again to a woman with the same given name.