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.