• 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
  • 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"
James, a shoemaker then farm servant in Gordon (marr. abt 1788)
Any direct male line FAIRBAIRNs still around to represent this line in the DNA project?

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  • James0 Fairbairn (say 1765 - bet. 1795 - 1841)
    • Elizabeth Alison (say 1765 - bet. 1795 - 1841)
      • James1 Fairbairn (circa Dec 1789 - Feb 1880)
        • ?
          • Susan2 Fairbairn (circa 1831 - aft. 1851)
        • Isabella Speirs (say 1805 - bet. 1833 - 1841)
          • James2 Fairbairn (Dec 1828 - Jul 1905)
            • Margaret Simson (circa 1836 - Jan 1913)
              • Jane M.3 Fairbairn (Dec 1855 - )
              • Isabell3 Fairbairn (May 1858 - Nov 1892)
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Nov 1861 - aft. 1901)
              • Alison3 Fairbairn (Apr 1863 - aft. 1901)
          • William2 Fairbairn (Sep 1833 - aft. 1901)
            • Mary Stewart (circa 1835 - aft. 1881)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Apr 1854 - aft. 1901)
              • George3 Fairbairn (Jun 1855 - )
              • William3 Fairbairn (Mar 1857 - aft. 1871)
              • Margaret W.3 Fairbairn (Mar 1859 - aft. 1881)
                • George Mark (circa 1856 - aft. 1881)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Apr 1863 - aft. 1907)
                • Jane W. Rankin (May 1861 - 1907)
              • Isabella3 Fairbairn (Feb 1865 - aft. 1881)
              • Mary3 Fairbairn (Dec 1868 - aft. 1881)
      • John1 Fairbairn (circa Feb 1791 - Aug 1871)
      • Thomas1 Fairbairn (Apr 1795 - Jul 1871)
        • Margaret Thomson (circa 1809 - bet. 1861 - 1871)
          • Janet2 Fairbairn (Jun 1832 - )
            • George Scott (circa 1833 - )
          • Elizabeth2 Fairbairn (Jun 1833 - 1902)
            • Walter Lees (circa 1835 - aft. 1871)
          • James2 Fairbairn (Nov 1834 - bet. 1861 - 1903)
            • Isabella Robertson (circa 1829 - Mar 1915)
              • Margaret R.3 Fairbairn (Apr 1858 - aft. 1903)
                • George Crawford (circa 1855 - aft. 1881)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (Jun 1838 - Apr 1926)
            • John Riddell (circa 1839 - Feb 1923)
          • John2 Fairbairn (Jun 1840 - Mar 1920)
            • Catherine Robertson (circa 1843 - Jul 1880)
              • Catherine3 Fairbairn (May 1863 - Jul 1880)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (Jun 1865 - 1865)
              • male3 Fairbairn (Jun 1865 - )
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (Aug 1866 - aft. 1881)
              • Jemima R.3 Fairbairn (Jun 1869 - Jul 1880)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (Mar 1872 - May 1953)
              • John3 Fairbairn (circa 1874 - Aug 1880)
              • Isabella3 Fairbairn (circa 1878 - aft. 1881)
          • Helen2 Fairbairn (Feb 1842 - )
          • Thomas2 Fairbairn (Jun 1844 - aft. 1881)
            • Elizabeth Cockburn (circa 1849 - aft. 1901)
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (circa 1873 - aft. 1881)
              • Thomas3 Fairbairn (Aug 1875 - May 1939)
                • Florence E. Tissiman (Aug 1884 - May 1957)
                  • Florence E.4 Fairbairn (bet. Jun 1914 - Sep 1914 - )
                  • Joan I.4 Fairbairn
              • John C.3 Fairbairn (1877 - bet. Jun 1976 - Sep 1976)
                • Gertrude A. O'Connor (bet. Jun 1886 - Sep 1886 - bet. Jan 1965 - Mar 1965)
                  • John C.4 Fairbairn (Nov 1905 - bet. Jan 1971 - Mar 1971)
                  • Alexander C.4 Fairbairn (Oct 1909 - bet. Jun 1973 - Sep 1973)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (circa 1880 - Mar 1968)
                • John P. Richards (1882 - Apr 1941)
          • Isabel2 Fairbairn (Mar 1846 - )
          • Alison2 Fairbairn (Jul 1849 - )