[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Genealogists New Year Resolutions

[marlo]

Rose,  I think my ancestors kept everyone of those resolutions.  Thank you. 
Margaret



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rose Ingram" <roseingram at shaw.ca>
To: "GPV List" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Genealogists New Year Resolutions


> 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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