Surname Index

Are you a cousin? If you think you may be related to any of the individuals or family lines on this site, just email me, Tom Piercy.
It would help if you could quote the individual's name and TMG ID No. and your connection to the individual.
I would be delighted to share my information on the individual's family lines.
Many thanks - I look forward to hearing from you.

• Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.
  
  — Ecclesiasticus 44 v1
• And we are his Sisters and his Cousins and his Aunts,
  His Sisters and his Cousins,
  Which he reckons up by dozens
  And his Aunts.
  
  — Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore
• There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children - one is roots, the other wings.
  
  — Hodding S. Carter, 1907 -1972
• He alone deserves to be remembered by his children who treasures up and preserves the memory of his fathers.
  
  — Edmund Burke, 1729-1797
• Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
  
  — John Ciardi
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
  
  — George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
• I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable.
  
  — WS Gilbert, The Mikado
• Remember me in the family tree
  My name, my days, my strife
  Then I'll ride upon the wings of time
  and live an endless life.
  
  — Linda Goetsch
• If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
  
  — Dick Cavett
• It is a wise father that knows his own child.
  
  — William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
• I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
  
  — Herb Caen
• Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
  
  — Anthony Brandt
• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
  
  — Jane Howard
• Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.
  
  — Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English Poet (1793-1835)
• To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
  
  — Simone Weil
• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
  
  — George Bernard Shaw