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Do You have this Rellie in your tree?
Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:29:33 +1000
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Graeme...
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Keep a lookout for this guy =96 he=92s everywhere on my tree!!
1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES.=20
It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry HYDENWELL sits at his desk by
candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to writes his New
Year's resolutions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different church =
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