All I Want For Christmas Is A New Surname


Dear Santa,
Don't bring me new dishes,
I don't need a new kind of game.

Genealogists have peculiar wishes

For Christmas I just want a surname.

A new washing machine would be great,
But it's not the desire of my life.
I've just found an ancestor's birth date;
What I need now is the name of his wife.

My heart doesn't yearn for a ring
That would put a real diamond to shame.
What I want is a much cheaper thing;
Please give me Mary's last name.

To see my heart singing with joy,
Don't bring me a read leather suitcase,
Bring me a genealogist's toy;
a surname with dates and a place.

(author unknown)
(seen in Illinois State Gen Soc newsletter 1984)
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bridgett/chhumor.htm

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