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Northumberland and Durham Family History Society - founded in 1975. Dedicated to helping its members, from beginners to experienced researchers alike, to learn more about their ancestors
Stockton Boys Grammar School - Did you attend? Recognise any of these faces and can put a name to them? Sign the Guestbook and let others know who you are.
UK Genealogy - Researching in County Durham? - Visit our easy-to-navigate site of genealogy links and maps, the ideal starting point for anyone researching their ancestors in County Durham.
Original Indexes - Research aids for local and family history in the ancient county of Durham.
Northfiche - Producers of microfiche useful to family historians with links in County . Provides a listing of available parish register transcripts and indexes, and ordering information.
Essential Easington - Information on Easington, County Durham and the surrounding area, including Parish Registers and Records, plus links to other sites of use.
Seaham Super Index - A fee-based genealogical and local history database for the east of the County . Includes parish registers and census returns .
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Genealogy It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Genealogy Marriage is a rest period between romances. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Genealogy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Genealogy It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Genealogy "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Genealogy Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Genealogy Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Genealogy Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Genealogy I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Genealogy "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Genealogy It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Genealogy An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Genealogy For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Genealogy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genealogy blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Genealogy The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Genealogy I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Genealogy Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi "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) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Genealogy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Genealogy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Genealogy Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Genealogy
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