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Pedley Online - Family tree of Philip Pedley born Cheshire c.1650 and descendant surnames. GEDCOM file available for download.
Pollitt Genealogy - Devoted to the Pollitt surname (and variations) includes a database of births, marriages and deaths.
Parry - Family tree of Michelle Parry's daughter Megan. Surname list and information about Chester.
Musical Home - genealogy, family & music - Includes a family tree / history for Bowring, Frankland, Greaves, Norman, Park (and Chalmers Park), Simons, Slee-Smith, Spinak and Walton families. It also covers family information such as concert listings, photographs and updates.
Preece Family Tree - Genealogy for this Preece family with members in Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Burton-on-Trent and Ledbury. Other surnames include Bloor, Whatley and Leivers. Containing a name index and contact details.
Platten Family History - A brief description of the family name, origin, famous Plattens, locations and personal family tree.
Pitts Family - Brief history including Pitts and Pressinger marriage and photographs.
Perry, Leeds - Family history with photographs and links to sources.
Parkhouse, Roy - Personal family tree, also Somerset and Devon Parish register indexed transcriptions online, plus links and contact details.
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom P The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) P "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke P Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a P There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde P "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson P Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb P Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) P "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live P Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words P The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) P Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton P It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain P A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li P "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde P Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner P "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) P A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo P "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus P When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) P "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) P Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch P
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