Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas, William
Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May
Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
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.
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.
Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks
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.
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______
Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible names.
Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth, marriages, or deaths.
