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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
John Riddell
Archibald Riddell
Mary Riddell
Isabella Riddell
George Riddell
Ann Preston
Robina P. Riddell
John Riddell
Agnes Riddell
Helen UnknownSurname
John Riddell
Helen Beattie
John Riddell
Lilly-Low Bain
John Riddell
Kate Riddell
Mary B. Riddell
Thomas Riddell
Agnes F. Riddell
William W. Mabon
Helen D. Mabon
Walter R. B. Riddell
Helen Riddell
Georgina Riddell
Thomas S. Riddell
Isabel Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Mary Hislop
Margaret Fairbairn
Charles Purdie
Mary Purdie
Archibald Purdie
Elizabeth Purdie
Cecilia Purdie
Robert Scott
Margaret Scott
Charles P. Scott
Margaret G. Davidson
Robert Scott
James Scott
Helen Scott
Mary Scott
Isabella Scott
William Purdie
Ann Robson
Mary Purdie
William Fleming
William Fleming
Robert Fleming
James Fleming
Robert Purdie
Cecelia Purdie
Margaret Purdie
Adam Purdie
Annie Purdie
Jessie Purdie
George Fairbairn
Janet Purdie
Mary Fairbairn
Alexander Clapperton
George Clapperton
Elizabeth Symons
Jessie Clapperton
Mary F. Clapperton
James G. Hessel
Nellie Hessel
Tom Hessel
Wilhelmina Clapperton
Lizzie Clapperton
Georgina Clapperton
Robert Stewart
David Stewart
John Clapperton
Archibald Clapperton
Janet Clapperton
James Wallace
John Wallace
Mary Wallace
Marion Clapperton
Thomas Clapperton
Hellen N. Leitch
Mary A. Clapperton
Alexander Clapperton
Marion Clapperton
Ronald D. MacDonald
Archibald Fairbairn
Elizabeth Simpson
George Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Janet Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
Sarah Fairbairn
Cecilia Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Margaret Gregory
Cecilia Fairbairn
Robert Wintrup
John Wintrup
Janet Wintrup
George Wintrup
Thomas Wintrup
Robert Wintrup
Margaret Wintrup
Archibald Wintrup
Margaret Fairbairn
John Williamson
Janet Williamson
William B. Eyre
Male Eyre
Ernest L. Eyre
Mabel P. Stenhouse
Clive K. Eyre
Hilary J. McLaren
Shirley J. Eyre
Robert A. Bradbury
Margaret Williamson
Alfred Snow
Robert Williamson
Georgina Williamson
Robert Fairbairn
Elizabeth Wayness
Mary Fairbairn
George W. Fairbairn
Jessie Paterson
Agnes Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Mary T. Fairbairn
Elizabeth Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Isabella N. Scott
Robert Fairbairn
Margaret W. Stewart
R(obert?) Fairbairn
William S. Fairbairn
George Fairbairn
Janet Fairbairn
Elizabeth M. Fairbairn
Alice Fairbairn
Archibald Fairbairn
Janet Easton
Walter Fairbairn
James J. Fairbairn
Alice E. K. Weatherstone
Archibald Fairbairn
Teresa Fanning
Ian S. Fairbairn
Lynne May
Hugh C. Fairbairn
Winifred Finlay
John S. Fairbairn
Ellen S. Fairbairn
Leslie M. Fairbairn
Carl S. Fairbairn
Jean M. Main
Charles Fairbairn
Mary Bate
George T. Fairbairn
Blanche E. UnknownSurname
Donald G. Fairbairn
Blanche T. Fairbairn
Charles E. Fairbairn
Florence T. Collier
Dorothy Fairbairn
Charles C. Fairbairn
Maxine N. Condrey
William B. Fairbairn
Ida L. UnknownSurname ?Osmonson, ?Hellesen, ?Severson
Richard B. Fairbairn
Helen M. Fairbairn
Thomas P. 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
Ruby UnknownSurname
Pam Fairburn
Marsha Fairburn
Cornelius Klipp
Doris M. Fairburn
George Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Margaret N. Kay
George Fairbairn
Euphemia Laurie
John Fairbairn
Peter Fairbairn
Margaret McLaren
John Fairbairn
Isabella H. Morrison
Elizabeth Fairbairn
Tom G. Jones
Ian W. Jones
Alexander M. Fairbairn
Annie Fairbairn
Janet P. Fairbairn
Charles L. Anderson
John Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Archibald Fairbairn
Cecily Fairbairn
George Brodie
Mary Brodie
Isabella Brodie
Agnes Brodie
Cecilia Brodie
Margaret Brodie
Cecilia I. Brodie
Alexander Wood
Archibald Brodie
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