Lorna's family forest - Top part of the ALGAR tree

BMD data on all rellies

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
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
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
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
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

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Shows how the earlier ALGAR and PEEK lines connect

My line

Augustine Algar
- ?
  - Michael Algar
    - ?
      - Augustine Algar (say 1605 - )
        ?
        Augustine Algar (cir. Sep 1635 - )
        Johane Pearse (say 1635 - 1693)
        Andrew Algar (say 1660 - )
        Mary Courtis (say 1661 - )
        George Algar (cir. Oct 1684 - )
        Damaris Algar (cir. Feb 1686 - )
        Samuel Algar (cir. Jun 1690 - 1770)
        Sarah Lowry (say 1697 - 1754)
        Mary Algar (cir. Feb 1722 - )
        John Algar (say 1720 - )
        Sarah Algar (cir. Nov 1744 - Nov 1744)
        John Algar (1746 - Nov 1754)
        John Algar (cir. Feb 1755 - )
        Mary Algar (cir. Nov 1756 - )
        Sarah Algar (cir. Feb 1759 - )
        Elzabeth Algar (cir. Apr 1761 - )
        George C. Algar (cir. Mar 1764 - )
        Samuel Algar (cir. Jul 1766 - )
        William Algar (cir. Feb 1769 - )
        Elizabeth Algar (cir. May 1725 - cir. Apr 1763)
        Richard Peek (cir. Dec 1712 - cir. Aug 1778)
        George Peek (Sep 1753 - cir. Apr 1763)
        Elizabeth Peek (cir. Apr 1757 - May 1837)
        Thomas Helson (1746 - bet. Mar 1826 - Mar 1826)
        Sarah Peek (cir. 1758 - cir. Apr 1795)
        James B. King (cir. May 1754 - Jul 1824)
        John Peek (Mar 1761 - Jun 1835)
        William Peek (cir. Jan 1763 - )
        George Algar (cir. Nov 1727 - Feb 1738)
        Samuel Algar (cir. May 1730 - 1785)
        Wilmot UnknownSurname (cir. 1730 - aft. 1786)
        Elizabeth Algar (cir. May 1755 - aft. 1788)
        William Medland (say 1755 - )
        Samuel Algar (1756 - Jun 1836)
        Elizabeth Parsons (cir. 1783 - Apr 1833)
        John Algar (cir. May 1733 - 1800)
        Joan Bowhay (cir. 1734 - Aug 1811)
        Mary Algar (cir. Jan 1754 - )
        Sarah Algar (cir. May 1755 - )
        Elizabeth Algar (cir. Dec 1756 - )
        John Algar (cir. Apr 1758 - bef. 1768)
        Esther Algar (cir. Apr 1760 - )
        John Algar (cir. Jun 1768 - )
        Sarah Algar (cir. May 1735 - 1743)
        Elias Algar (cir. Nov 1738 - 1775)
        Arthur Algar (cir. Feb 1693 - )
        George Algar (cir. Mar 1660 - )
        Austine Algar (cir. Dec 1663 - 1682)
        John Algar (cir. Sep 1667 - Jun 1669)
        Johan Algar (cir. Aug 1669 - )
        ?Jane ?Moore (say 1605 - )
        Michael Algar (cir. Jan 1632 - )
        George Algar (cir. Oct 1639 - )
    - ?Joane ?Lange (say 1615 - )

My line