What all those cryptic abbreviations mean
Life Events:
Ch(urch); Pres(byterian); Meth(odist)
Crem(atorium); Cem(etery);
MIs: Monumental Inscriptions
County/country - Chapman codes only
Cty = County; Twp = Township; Par(ish)
transcr(ibed); reg(istered)
BDM or BMD: Births Deaths Marriages
b(orn); d(ied); chr(istened); bap(tised); dec(eased)
Inf(ormant); Wit(nesses) reg(istered) unm(arried)
d/o; s/o; f/o; m/o; w/o; h/o: daughter, son, father, mother, wife, husband of (resp.)
m.s. - maiden surname
nok - next of kin
Places:
? before a place name indicates the event referred to probably occurred where shown, but may not have
 
? after a townindicates I either had trouble deciphering the writing, or if after a parish, county or country, I'm unsure as to which area the place name belongs to
 
G and L under the Places links, refer to Google Earth and Live Search (Virtual Earth) If one doesn't have sufficient detail to show places accurately, try the other (or assume I've got the co-ordinates wrong). I'm finding Virtual Earth has better UK photos for the Borders and Devon at least. Make sure you try out the different views available (satellite, map or terrain usually) and have fun panning and zooming in/out to the best level.
Any event without a source citation, or without a citaton showing "extracted/rcvd/copy downloaded" etc MMM YYYY, was from between 1971 and 1999 at which time I got a decent genealogy program
 
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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna 1992
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon