We believe in Aunt Clara, the
eternal pursuer of our genealogy, in the tradition that allows us
to "let Aunt Clara do it" and in her persistence in supplying us
with Xerox copies of all her work.
We believe that man will be
excused from their own genealogy, if they are earning a living, or
are just too busy.
We hope that through the temple
attendance of others, all mankind may be saved.
We believe that the first
principles of genealogy work are: first, faith that someone else
will do it; second, repentance through maintained ignorance;
third, baptism by immersion and in so many other things that we
don't have time to do anything; fourth, the laying on of excuses
for the gift of self-justification.
We believe that a man must be
born a genealogist, or he will never have the ability to perform
the functions of record-keeping, or any research thereof.
We believe in following the same
organization that existed before the correlation program; namely,
don't try to improve the system, don't take any training courses,
don't form a family organization, etc.
We believe in the gift of time
-- time for TV, time for clubs, time for movies, etc.
We believe the handbook of
genealogy and temple work to be the work of the Church as far as
it is translated correctly. We also have our doubts about the
genealogy lesson manuals.
We believe nothing that the ward
committees for genealogy has revealed and we doubt that it will
yet reveal any great or important things that we do not already
know.
We believe in the literal
gathering of names out of library books only, and that pedigrees
can be built upon this theoretical foundation that all our
pedigree sheets will be renewed automatically to paradisiacal
correctness.
We claim the privilege of
interpreting all family traditions and printed histories to suit
our own convenience, and we allow all men the same privilege...let
them assume who, where or what they may.
We believe in being subject to
discouragement, lack of confidence, and busy schedules and
ignoring, resisting or withstanding the law.
We believe in being lazy, and in
not supporting genealogy work (which would result in good to all
men), indeed we may say that we follow the lines of least
resistance; we hope all things, but we do nothing, we have not
endured anything and we do not expect to be able to endure
anything; if there is any approved way to get out of these
responsibilities, we seek after these things.