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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
  • 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"
Some descendants of George & Janet (MURRAY) FAIRBAIRN.
(The assumed parents of James and Helen (GOODFELLOW) FAIRBAIRN)
DNA Tested Line
  • George0 Fairbairn (say 1745 - aft. 1789)
    • Janet Murray (say 1747 - aft. 1788)
      • Isabel1 Fairbairn (Nov 1769 - )
      • Janet1 Fairbairn (1771 - aft. 1841)
      • James1 Fairbairn (Dec 1774 - bet. 1774 - 1788)
      • John1 Fairbairn (Aug 1778 - )
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (cir. Mar 1781 - Nov 1856)
        • Ann Curle (cir. 1781 - bet. 1841 - 1851)
          • George2 Fairbairn (Apr 1813 - )
          • William2 Fairbairn (cir. 1815 - Jan 1882)
            • Isabella Symington (cir. 1807 - bet. 1871 - 1881)
              • John3 Symington (cir. 1825 - Aug 1888)
              • Ann3 Fairbairn (cir. 1845 - aft. 1901)
                • Alexander Middlemiss (cir. 1845 - aft. 1881)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (cir. 1818 - Oct 1886)
            • Agnes Rutherford (cir. 1822 - aft. 1886)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Jun 1854 - Mar 1891)
              • William3 Fairbairn (Nov 1856 - Sep 1906)
                • Helen Rutherford (cir. 1864 - aft. 1906)
              • George3 Fairbairn (Dec 1859 - bet. 1861 - 1862)
              • George3 Fairbairn (Nov 1862 - Aug 1938)
                • Annie Forbes (cir. 1857 - )
                  • Alexanderina4 Fairbairn
                    • John Rollo ( - aft. 1938)
                  • Georgina4 Fairbairn (cir. 1890 - )
                    • David McEvoy (cir. 1889 - )
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (cir. 1892 - Feb 1943)
                    • Annie J. Arthur (cir. 1892 - aft. 1943)
      • Janet1 Fairbairn (Apr 1784 - )
      • James1 Fairbairn (Dec 1788 - Jan 1873)
        • Agnes Ramsay (Nov 1779 - bet. Sep 1861 - Dec 1861)
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (Jun 1813 - bet. Jan 1897 - Mar 1897)
            • Gracie Watt (cir. 1815 - bet. Jan 1881 - Mar 1881)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (Sep 1837 - )
                • Frederick Peckham (cir. 1836 - bet. Jan 1895 - Mar 1895)
              • James3 Fairbairn (bet. Jan 1839 - Mar 1839 - aft. 1851)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (cir. 1842 - bet. Sep 1902 - Dec 1902)
                • Eleanor N. Spiller (cir. 1841 - bet. Jan 1898 - Mar 1898)
                  • James G.4 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1865 - Jun 1865 - 1950)
                    • Emily S. Evans (cir. 1850 - 1896)
                    • Janet A. Riddle (cir. 1871 - aft. 1911)
                  • Robert4 Fairbairn (cir. 1875 - aft. 1911)
                    • Elizabeth E. Churchman (cir. 1872 - bet. Jan 1959 - Mar 1959)
              • Agnes3 Fairbairn (cir. 1844 - aft. 1911)
                • William Riddle (cir. 1836 - bet. Mar 1909 - Jun 1909)
        • Helen Goodfellow (cir. 1789 - Jan 1873)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (Aug 1814 - Jul 1882)
            • William Martin (1803 - Jan 1859)
          • George2 Fairbairn (May 1816 - 1904)
            • Electa Cowdrey (1819 - Oct 1890)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Sep 1842 - Nov 1920)
                • Mary A. Dinwoody (cir. 1848 - aft. 1901)
              • George C.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1846 - Dec 1887)
                • Sarah E. Donnen (Mar 1854 - Mar 1935)
                  • Blanche4 Fairbairn (Aug 1882 - 1953)
                    • Rev William A. Walden (1876 - 1949)
                • Elina Marshall (bet. 1844 - 1866 - bet. 1866 - 1880)
                  • Pearl M.4 Fairbairn (Jan 1884 - bef. 1978)
                  • Earl D.4 Fairbairn (Jun 1886 - bef. 1976)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (cir. 1848 - aft. 1871)
              • William H.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1848 - aft. 1873)
                • Sarah Pitt (cir. 1855 - )
              • Jerusha3 Fairbairn (cir. 1852 - aft. 1880)
                • Robert McGee (cir. 1844 - )
                  • Frank E.4 McGee (Nov 1874 - )
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Oct 1853 - Apr 1923)
                • Hattie E. Stitt (May 1858 - Feb 1884)
                  • Lillian M.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1876 - Nov 1953)
                    • Charles A. Crump (1885 - 1975)
                  • James S.4 Fairbairn (Nov 1878 - Aug 1913)
                  • Raymond L.4 Fairbairn (Aug 1880 - Feb 1959)
                    • Luella B. Smith (Jul 1886 - Aug 1973)
                  • Harriet4 Fairbairn (Feb 1884 - Feb 1975)
                    • Robert S. Anderson (Nov 1881 - bef. 1975)
                • Ruth A. A. Stitt (Aug 1864 - Jul 1926)
                  • Pearl4 Fairbairn (May 1888 - Sep 1889)
                  • Charles V.4 Fairbairn (Nov 1890 - Feb 1975)
                    • Lena M. Vannest (Sep 1895 - Jan 1969)
                  • Winnifred E.4 Fairbairn (Aug 1893 - Jun 1982)
                    • Aura E. Watts (Oct 1892 - Nov 1986)
                  • Ward M.4 Fairbairn (Apr 1897 - Aug 1923)
              • Andrew3 Fairbairn (Apr 1855 - aft. 1930)
                • Lucy A. Manhart (cir. 1860 - aft. 1930)
                  • Morley L.4 Fairbairn (Feb 1882 - Jul 1964)
                    • Madge L. UnknownSurname (cir. 1882 - aft. 1930)
                  • Claude M.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1885 - bet. 1920 - 1930)
                    • Blanche J. Connors (cir. 1892 - aft. 1930)
                  • Andrew K.4 Fairbairn (Jan 1895 - Oct 1979)
                    • Bessie A. UnknownSurname (cir. 1892 - aft. 1930)
                  • Frank M.4 Fairbairn (cir. 1898 - aft. 1930)
              • Gideon3 Fairbairn (cir. 1857 - )
                • Minnie Clark (cir. 1860 - )
              • Henry3 Fairbairn (Oct 1860 - aft. 1901)
                • Annie McGee (Jul 1860 - aft. 1901)
                  • Harold4 Fairbairn (May 1888 - aft. 1901)
                  • Ralph A.4 Fairbairn (Nov 1890 - )
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (cir. 1818 - May 1876)
            • Jane McLatchie (Mar 1829 - Feb 1858)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (Mar 1855 - 1884)
              • Jennet3 Fairbairn (Apr 1856 - )
            • Jane Newman (cir. 1838 - May 1920)
              • Andrew3 Fairbairn (Mar 1860 - )
                • Mary E. Thomson (Mar 1868 - Dec 1918)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (May 1862 - aft. 1911)
                • Christina M. Carruthers (Jun 1869 - )
                  • William C.4 Fairbairn (Jun 1895 - aft. 1930)
                    • Cora Brown (cir. 1884 - )
                  • Harold C.4 Fairbairn (Sep 1908 - aft. 1911)
              • Ruth3 Fairbairn (cir. 1868 - )
                • John Wickware (cir. 1867 - )
              • John3 Fairbairn (cir. 1872 - aft. 1891)
          • James2 Fairbairn (Apr 1821 - Mar 1882)
            • Helen Graham (cir. 1823 - aft. 1859)
              • James3 Fairbairn (cir. 1847 - )
                • Mary Mead (cir. 1850 - aft. 1878)
              • Gideon3 Fairbairn (cir. 1854 - aft. 1891)
                • Cornellia O. D. Stitt (cir. 1857 - Nov 1896)
                  • Gideon J.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1879 - Feb 1916)
                    • Elizabeth F. Evans
                  • Charles G.4 Fairbairn (Jul 1881 - aft. 1901)
              • William J.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1859 - aft. 1911)
                • Emma J. Robertson (Dec 1860 - May 1933)
                  • Bruce4 Fairbairn (Oct 1886 - aft. 1911)
                  • Hattie4 Fairbairn (May 1888 - aft. 1933)
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (Jun 1823 - )
          • Robert2 Fairbairn (Aug 1825 - Aug 1880)
            • Mercy Spencer (cir. 1841 - aft. 1891)
              • David3 Fairbairn (cir. 1861 - aft. 1888)
              • Lily M.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1870 - )
              • Robert A.3 Fairbairn (Jun 1873 - )
          • Andrew2 Fairbairn (Jun 1828 - aft. 1891)
            • Hester A. Spencer (Mar 1846 - aft. 1922)
              • David A.3 Fairbairn (Jan 1870 - Feb 1870)
              • Herman S.3 Fairbairn (Jul 1871 - Dec 1954)
                • Edith M. Chipperfield (Dec 1879 - aft. 1954)
                  • Evelyn4 Fairbairn
                    • ?
                  • Gerald4 Fairbairn (Jun 1911 - Aug 1993)
                    • Grace G. Clark
          • Gideon2 Fairbairn (Sep 1831 - Mar 1892)
            • Rhoda Spencer (Nov 1839 - Mar 1932)
              • Harvey W.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1870 - aft. 1905)
                • Dora A. Bennett (cir. 1883 - )
                  • Carl4 Fairbairn (Dec 1907 - Aug 1995)
                    • Loretta McAuley
              • Clarissa H.3 Fairbairn (Feb 1874 - aft. 1901)
DNA Tested Line