1. You get locked in a library overnight and you never even notice.
2. You hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.
3. You'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall.
4. You think every home should have a microfilm reader.
5. You'd rather read census schedules than a good book.
6. You know every town clerk in your state by name.
7. Town clerks lock the doors when they see you coming.
8. You are more interested in what happened in 1695 than 1995.
9. You store your clothes under the bed and your closet is carefully stacked with notebooks and journals.
10. Savage, Torrey, and Pope are household names, but you can't remember what you call your dog.
11. You can pinpoint Harrietsham, Hawkhurst, Kent on a map of England, but can't locate Topeka, Kansas.
12. All of your correspondence begins "Dear Cousin."
13. You've traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it fully documented, and still don't want to quit.
(I found this at ScotGen. Thanks!)
Ancestry & Genealogy of Alfred Leslie Worland, Rosella Johnston and Allied Colonial Families.
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THE 13 COMMANDMENTS FOR ANCESTORS
1. Thou shalt name thy male children; James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Robert, William and Thomas.
2. Thou shalt name thy female children; Rebecca, Susannah, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, Maud and Matilda.
3.
Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
4. Thou shalt, after naming thy children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as; Ike, Tub, Eli, Polly, Mollie, Fannie, Sally, Sudey and Sukey, --making them difficult to trace.
5. Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only when necessary, you may use only initials on legal documents.
6. Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that thy surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways; Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks, or Robertson, Robinson, Roberson, Robuson, Robson, Dobson.
7. Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a courthouse 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 Native American ancestry of the ___ tribe . . .
c.You may have descended from ONE of three brothers who came over from ___.
9. Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names.
10. Thou shalt leave NO family Bibles with records of birth, marriages or deaths.
11. Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born John Albert, thou must make all the rest of the records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart or Alfred.
12. Thou must also flip thy parents' names when making references 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.
2. Thou shalt name thy female children; Rebecca, Susannah, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, Maud and Matilda.
3.
Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
4. Thou shalt, after naming thy children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as; Ike, Tub, Eli, Polly, Mollie, Fannie, Sally, Sudey and Sukey, --making them difficult to trace.
5. Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only when necessary, you may use only initials on legal documents.
6. Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that thy surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways; Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks, or Robertson, Robinson, Roberson, Robuson, Robson, Dobson.
7. Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a courthouse 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 Native American ancestry of the ___ tribe . . .
c.You may have descended from ONE of three brothers who came over from ___.
9. Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names.
10. Thou shalt leave NO family Bibles with records of birth, marriages or deaths.
11. Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born John Albert, thou must make all the rest of the records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert, Bart or Alfred.
12. Thou must also flip thy parents' names when making references 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.
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