[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Genealogists New Year Resolutions

[Gary Warner]

Rose,

Cute, but there is a mistake in Item 2.    That item should read " I 
resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same GIVEN 
names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row, AND 
AS MUCH AS PRACTICAL, THEY SHALL ALL HAVE THE SAME NAMES AS THEIR 
COUSINS.   ALSO THEY SHALL ALL HAVE DIFFERENT SURNAMES IN EACH GENERATION."

Gary



At 03:06 PM 12/29/05, Rose Ingram wrote:
>We all can relate to this!
>Happy New Year to all.
>
>Rose Ingram
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>NEWS FLASH. -- 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
>
>TO SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES.
>
>
>It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry Hydenwel sits at his desk by
>candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to writes his New
>Year's resolutions.
>
>1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name at
>least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to give
>the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming year.
>
>2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same
>names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row.
>
>3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never
>list the same age or birth year twice on any document.
>
>4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different
>church -- either in a different faith or in a different parish. Every
>third child will not be baptized at all or will be baptized by an
>itinerant minister who keeps no records.
>
>5. I resolve to move to a new town, new county, or new state at least
>once every 10 years -- just before those pesky enumerators come around
>asking silly questions.
>
>6. I will make every attempt to reside in counties and towns where no
>vital records are maintained or where the courthouse burns down every
>few years.
>
>7. I resolve to join an obscure religious cult that does not believe in
>record keeping or in participating in military service.
>
>8. When the tax collector comes to my door, I'll loan him my pen, which
>has been dipped in rapidly fading blue ink.
>
>9. I resolve that if my beloved wife Mary should die, I will marry
>another Mary.
>
>10. I resolve not to make a will. Who needs to spend money on a lawyer
>
>
>
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