Re: Solving Genealogical Mysteries

["Valhenley" <Valhenley_uid1724@yahoogroups.invalid>]

Lol. Love it.

Val

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On 2011-10-15, at 10:00 PM, Penny Lane <plane001@...> wrote:

> For all you researchers out there.
> News Flash 1852- It's New Years Eve 1852 and Henry Hydenwell sits at his desk by candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to write his New Years 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 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 baptised in a different church-either in a different faith or in a different parish. Every third child will not be baptised at all or will be baptised 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 ten 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 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 should my beloved Mary 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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