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FreeBMD - Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths, a project with the aim of providing free Internet access to the Civil Registration index information for England and Wales.
HM Government - Family Records - Official consortium site aims to help researchers find government records and other resources. Includes articles, guides and information on the help available from partners.
UK Genealogy Common Acronyms and Jargon - Explains common jargon expressions for UK genealogy, their definitions, and some web-based resources for them.
Lost London Street and Places - A database of 4000 streets that can no longer be found in London.
British Home Children - Site's ethos is to increase awareness of the British Child Emigration Scheme and provide links to useful sites.
Crich Parish - A history of this parish in Derbyshire and its people. Transcripts of parish registers, census extracts, information relating to local trades, plus photographs and contact details.
The Gee Parchments - A genealogical research book about people in the UK. References from the mid 1500's to early 1900's.
Genealogy Help for private researchers - Provides help for family tree researchers. Includes census and parish records, mainly relating to areas in Somerset, also village histories and photographs. All information relates to the UK only.
United Kingdom Genealogy - Genealogy resources including parish registers, herald's visitations and a name database. Supported by the sale of cd archives.
Family Tree Magazine - List and extracts of current month's articles as well as information on how to subscribe.
Northern Heritage, Watermen and Boatmen ancestors. - Canal boat mailing lists for researchers, along with links to web sites containing information about those who worked or lived on the waterways of England. Also gives contact details and addresses.
Barnstaple, Devon: On-Line Parish Clerk's Site - Containing genealogical records, directory indexes, church records, workhouse records, photographs, details of books and links to other related information, plus contact link.
The Cotswolds of England Genealogy - Resources containing researcher pages, history, wills, complete family trees and more for this area which includes parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, North Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire.
Northamptonshire Parish Data - Index of parish data held by Family Historians, from which interested readers can request a look up, plus sites containing parish transcripts, and census returns.
Genuki - Large resource for UK and Irish genealogy, lists various guides, county by county links, bulletin boards, mailing lists and many other relevant articles and links.
Curious Fox - Offering a UK genealogy and local history contact board. Facility to search 50,000 UK counties, towns and villages, also surname search, nearby village finder, old maps and modern maps. Contact details provided.
Pedigrees and People of the United Kingdom - Genealogy site with many indexes, covering births, deaths, marriages particular to the United Kingdom, plus links to related sites. Help available from the Webmistress, Sheila Jones.
RootsChat.com - Forum for genealogy and local history in Ireland and the British Isles, divided into forums for each county and general topics.
Birch Family Tree - Family names Birch, Cuff, Payne, Wilson, O'boyle, Strathdee, Bain. From Hereford, West Sussex, London, Camberwell, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Cheam, Peckham, Scotland, Moray, Dufftown, Banff.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Searchable Debt of Honour Register records basic service details and personal information including grave location or place of commemoration for members of the Commonwealth Forces who died in the first or second world wars.
Digital Library of Historical Directories - Digital collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth-century local and trade directories from England and Wales. Provided by the University of Leicester.
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Genealogy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Genealogy "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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. -- Crow I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Genealogy He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Man and wife make one fool. Genealogy You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Genealogy Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Genealogy I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Genealogy "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Genealogy Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Genealogy Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 Genealogy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Genealogy The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Genealogy A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Genealogy And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Genealogy My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Genealogy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Genealogy He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Genealogy "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Genealogy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Genealogy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Genealogy Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Genealogy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Genealogy
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