I The Lighter Side of Family History
As any avid Genealogist I enjoy some family history humor and cartoons. These are some here. you can find most of these on other websites. I just really liked these.
This theory offers a simple explanation for problems encountered by all genealogists: Alien Spaceship Theory of Genealogy.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR NAMES:
(Plus a few extra)
(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, Hieks, 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 name 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) Thou shalt always have need of the US 1890 Census on your hardest line to research
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