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AmericanAncestors.org is a website offering a million (well, close) ways to help you find your early American ancestor. For instance, these are FREE webinars at www.americanancestors.org/events

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17 Jul: Top Repositories for Researching Upstate New York

Surely viewing these FREE webinars would help you??????

Here are some Sad & True Genealogy Rules Your Ancestors Followed...shared to guide your research in 2025:

* Thou salt be consistent in naming male children; only acceptable names are: James, John, Joseph, William and Thomas.

*Ditto for female children: Mary, Elizabeth, Ann and Sarah.

*Thou shalt never write down the surname of female children on any document.

*Thou shalt, after naming children from the approved list, call them by nicknames: Polly, Dolly, Sukey, Tommy or Billy.

*Thou shalt never write a surname legibly: let them guess!

*Thou shalt discard any documents created prior to your grandparents' time; descendants really won't care.

*Thou shalt bury your people on your land without a headstone.

*Thou shalt leave no family Bible records nor letters or diaries.

*Thou shalt never enter a courthouse to sign any legal documents.

*Thou shalt promote and propagate misleading legends, rumors and vague innuendos regarding ancestral information to mislead descendants.