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Cornwall Online's Genealogy Pages - Genealogical data files to download: 11th Cornish Surname Index, list of convicts (some Cornish) to NSW, Royal Navy ships in service in 1894, executions in England from 1606.
CornwallGenWeb - Comprehensive site for research of Cornwall. Part of the WorldGenWeb Project.
Cornish Forefathers Society - A family history research society for those researching Cornish ancestry. Map of parishes, parish transcriptions, names, name indices of its journals, news, useful addresses, how to join.
Stone Men of the West Country - Joan Taber provides a genealogical directory of stone and quarry workers of Cornwall and Devon, 1750-1900.
Troon Exiles - Contains a message board, photo album, genealogy pages and local interest. Includes 1881 census returns and memorial records of Treslothan Church.
Cornwall Family History Society - Advice on starting research, library and membership details.
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Genealogy There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Genealogy Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Genealogy "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Genealogy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Genealogy I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Genealogy "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Genealogy For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Genealogy Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Genealogy "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Genealogy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Genealogy "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Genealogy Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Genealogy "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Genealogy I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "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) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Genealogy The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Genealogy In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Genealogy No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Genealogy Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Genealogy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Man and wife make one fool. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Genealogy "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Genealogy
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