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Colin's Genealogy Pages - The Family Tree of the author, Colin Rayner. Also listing several parish transcripts for the area of Somerset around Meare and Glastonbury, along with some transcripts from the West Riding in Yorkshire. Plus latest additions list, photograph gallery and contact link.
Reeley Family Web Site - Provides genealogical and historical data for the Reeley surname, also Spencer, Fall and Ames surnames.
The Raine Family from County Durham, England - A genealogical study of the family names - COOK, COOKE, COPSEY, DODSWORTH, HALL, PEMBERTON, RAINE and others. Predominantly from the North East of England and Norfolk.
Rhodes Family History - Details of the genealogy of the Rhodes family, mainly in the Midlands region of England. Also Bevvington, Hayward and Raybould surnames. Non related Rhodes found during research is also included, plus a contact link.
Ray-Jones Family Website - The Ray-Jones family and their forbears (all with other surnames), including stories and illustrations, with links to other relevant sites.
Robinson/Green/Marriot/Dronfield/Watson/Walker Families - These pages are the results of several years of slow work into my and my wife's family trees. Name list, timeline, contact link, plus a downloadable GEDCOM file is available.
Rowell & Barlow Family History - Personal family tree of our ancestors to date, hailing from the North East and the Cheshire areas of England. Also including tips on researching your own families history.
Redwoods On Line - Search for ancestors and friends of the Redwood family originating from London.
David Ritchie Family Tree - Including images and histories of individuals with links to relevant genealogical sites. Surnames included are Ritchie, Owens, Warnock, Gibson, McKenna, McConnell and Rainey.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni R "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. 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Mead R The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett R Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry 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 is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar R "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. R A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen R We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team R "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) R "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw R Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie R Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) R They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek R "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) R Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) R I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. R Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) R "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh R "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb 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 R your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) R "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) R This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words R
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