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Lithuanian Global Genealogical Society - Databases, forums, and other resources for people researching family histories of Lithuanians, at home and abroad.
Avotaynu - Avotaynu is the leading publisher of information and products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy (Jewish roots) and Jewish family history. This includes the journal "Avotaynu", books, and microfiche. In addition, Avotaynu offers books, maps and video tapes published by other companies.
FEEFHS - The Federation of East European Family History Societies is an "umbrella" organization of over 170 genealogy-related organizations that specialize in some part of Eastern Europe. Several databases can be found here and the entire web site can be searched for any word using the "WebPortal Index" search feature.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - Search for towns in Lithuania and Poland. Presented by JewishGen.
Lithuania Genealogy Forum - Message board for Lithuanian genealogy researchers. Sponsored by Genealogy.com.
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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Genealogy Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Genealogy The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Genealogy "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Genealogy "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Genealogy The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genealogy "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Genealogy "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Genealogy Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Genealogy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Genealogy cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Genealogy Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Genealogy Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Genealogy There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Genealogy Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Genealogy Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Genealogy He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Genealogy
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