2. Thou shalt name your female children Elizabeth; Mary; Martha; Sarah; May or Ann
3. Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children
4. Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as: Ike; Eli; Polly; Dolly or Sukey.........making them difficult to trace, OR, use substitutes at random (ie) Ann/Hannah; Helen/Nellie or Elizabeth/Sarah
5. 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
6. Thou shalt learn to sign all legal documents illegibly so that your surname can be spelt or mispelt in various ways: Onery; O'Nery; Omeroy; Honery; Honary; Homory; Honnerry etc
7. Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burnt in a fire, or buried, so that NO future trace of them can be found
8. Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumours, vague innuendos etc regarding your place of origination:
(A) Your ancestors may have come from: England; Ireland; Scotland; Germany or ........Iceland
(B) You may have immigrated from........
(C) You may have descended from one of three brothers who immigrated from........
9. Thou shalt leave NO Headstones or Cemetery records
10. Thou shalt leave NO Family Bible with records of births, marriages, or deaths
11. Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou must make all the rest of thy records in the names of Albert; AJ; AL; Bert; Bart or Alfred
12. Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making reference to them on official documents, although UNKNOWN or a Blank Line is an acceptable alternative
13. Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of their cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers
14. Thou shalt send at least some of your children to live with distant relatives, for no apparent reason, and those children shall take on the surname of those they live with
15. Thou shalt take in other people's children, saying they are your own and naming them accoringly
16. Thou shalt change your surname as and when you see fit for no obvious reason, so that in some cases, each child has a different surname (ie) Omery to Bradcock; Grover to Groves; Groves to Rose; Honnery to Hornery or Hornery to Marshall
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