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Bath and Somerset 1841 Census - Lookups of for City and surrounding villages for the 1841 Census. Small fee required.
Somerset and Dorset Family History Society - Provides assistance to those researching their families in the two counties, no matter where they live. Details of contacts, services, how to join, groups and their events/activities, publications and research guide.
GenWeb: Somerset, England - Details and links of genealogical resources available for research in Somerset. Part of the World GenWeb Project.
Somerset Families - Site to help in the search for English roots, especially those in the county. Information on civil and parish records and local history pages.
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(Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Genealogy If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Genealogy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Genealogy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Genealogy The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Genealogy You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Genealogy Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Genealogy Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Genealogy "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Genealogy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Genealogy Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Genealogy "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Genealogy "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Genealogy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Genealogy A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Genealogy We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Genealogy There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Genealogy
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