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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
Descendants of Archibald FAIRBAIRN and Mary GRIERSON/GIESSEN
A descendant of this family has a DNA match with a descendant of Archibald FAIRBAIRN and Alison CROSSER, 64 out of 67 markers. My assumption is that the two Archibald's share a grandfather (given Martin is 8 generations down).
Mary Grierson
Mary Fairbairn
Agnes Fairbairn
Isabel Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
Cecily Fairbairn
John Riddell
Archibald Riddell
Mary Riddell
Isabella Riddell
George Riddell
John Riddell
Thomas S. Riddell
Mary Hislop
Charles Purdie
Cecilia Purdie
William Purdie
Janet Purdie
Mary Fairbairn
Archibald Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Cecilia Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Charles Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
George Brodie
Mary Brodie
Isabella Brodie
Agnes Brodie
Cecilia Brodie
Margaret Brodie
Archibald Brodie
Ann Preston
Robina P. Riddell
John Riddell
Agnes Riddell
Helen UnknownSurname
Helen Beattie
John Riddell
Mary B. Riddell
Thomas Riddell
Agnes F. Riddell
Walter R. B. Riddell
Helen Riddell
Georgina Riddell
Ann Robson
Mary Purdie
Robert Purdie
Cecelia Purdie
Margaret Purdie
Adam Purdie
Jessie Purdie
Alexander Clapperton
George Clapperton
John Clapperton
Archibald Clapperton
Janet Clapperton
Marion Clapperton
Thomas Clapperton
Marion Clapperton
Elizabeth Simpson
George Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Janet Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
Sarah Fairbairn
Cecilia Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Margaret Gregory
Robert Wintrup
John Wintrup
Janet Wintrup
George Wintrup
Thomas Wintrup
Robert Wintrup
Margaret Wintrup
Archibald Wintrup
John Williamson
Janet Williamson
Margaret Williamson
Robert Williamson
Georgina Williamson
Elizabeth Wayness
Mary Fairbairn
George W. Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Mary Bate
George T. Fairbairn
Charles E. Fairbairn
William B. Fairbairn
Thomas P. Fairbairn
Margaret N. Kay
George Fairbairn
Peter Fairbairn
Annie Fairbairn
Janet P. Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Archibald Fairbairn
Cecilia I. Brodie
Alexander Wood
Lilly-Low Bain
John Riddell
Kate Riddell
William W. Mabon
William Fleming
William Fleming
Robert Fleming
James Fleming
Annie Purdie
Elizabeth Symons
Jessie Clapperton
Mary F. Clapperton
Wilhelmina Clapperton
Lizzie Clapperton
Georgina Clapperton
James Wallace
John Wallace
Mary Wallace
Hellen N. Leitch
Mary A. Clapperton
Alexander Clapperton
Ronald D. MacDonald
William B. Eyre
Male Eyre
Ernest L. Eyre
Alfred Snow
Jessie Paterson
Agnes Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Mary T. Fairbairn
Elizabeth Fairbairn
Isabella N. Scott
Robert Fairbairn
William S. Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
Janet Fairbairn
Elizabeth M. Fairbairn
Alice Fairbairn
Archibald Fairbairn
Walter Fairbairn
Carl S. Fairbairn
Blanche E. UnknownSurname
Donald G. Fairbairn
Blanche T. Fairbairn
Florence T. Collier
Dorothy Fairbairn
Charles C. Fairbairn
Ida L. UnknownSurname ?Osmonson, ?Hellesen, ?Severson
Richard B. Fairbairn
Helen M. Fairbairn
Mabel E. Minturn
Archie J. Fairbairn
Thomas E. Fairburn
Leland E. Fairburn
Donald S. Fairburn
Marjory V. Fairburn
Kenneth C. Fairburn
Earl M. Fairburn
Doris M. Fairburn
Margaret McLaren
John Fairbairn
Charles L. Anderson
James G. Hessel
Nellie Hessel
Tom Hessel
Robert Stewart
David Stewart
Mabel P. Stenhouse
Clive K. Eyre
Shirley J. Eyre
Margaret W. Stewart
R(obert?) Fairbairn
Janet Easton
Jean M. Main
Maxine N. Condrey
Ruby UnknownSurname
Pam Fairburn
Marsha Fairburn
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