theDate= new Date();
var day = theDate.getDate();
var year = theDate.getYear();
year = (year < 2000) ? year + 1900 : year;
var textdate = theDate.getDate() + '/' + (theDate.getMonth() + 1)+ '/' + year;
var numquotes = 31;
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quotes[1] = "The ultimate family tree!
‘I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable’
The Mikado. W.S.Gilbert";
quotes[2] = "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)";
quotes[3] = "genealogy n.
An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce";
quotes[4] = "Genealogy by itself is a barren study if divorced from its moral and historical uses, and it is only by researches amongst the Public Records that an author can lift a family history above a dry genealogical chronicle, or throw light upon the laws and customs of the past.
(Hon. Geo. Wrottesley)";
quotes[5] = "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination…they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily buildings. (Robert Collier)";
quotes[6] = "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.(Ed Morrow, on receiving 1964 Family of Man Award)";
quotes[7] = "Youth is a wonderful thing, what a crime it is to waste it on children. (George Bernard Shaw)";
quotes[8] = "The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang histories on. (John Still)";
quotes[9] = "Where there's a will…Wills are not always dry as dust documents. For example David Davis of Clapham left to Mary Davis in 1788, ‘the sum of 5 shillings, which is sufficient to enable her to get drunk for the last time at my expense’ ";
quotes[10] = "That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Sydney Smith)";
quotes[11] = "You've reached middle age when all that you exercise is caution. (Anon)";
quotes[12] = "Double check your genealogical facts - A warning from William Shakespeare! (Henry IV PartII)
A man can die but once";
quotes[13] = "Die,my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do. (Attributed to 3rd Viscount Palmerston)";
quotes[14] = "The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened (Saki [Hector Hugh Munro])";
quotes[15] = "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them (The Little Prince Antoinene de saint-Exupéry)";
quotes[16] = "‘Do you know who made you?’
‘Nobody as I knows on,’ said the child, with a short laugh… ‘I 'spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody ever made me.’( Uncle Tom' Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe)
[The way some ancestors appear and disappear in records, I sometimes think that they were like Topsy.]";
quotes[17] = "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. (Mark Twain)";
quotes[18] = "‘To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’
(Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest)";
quotes[19] = "‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.’
(Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest)";
quotes[20] = "Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.( Corrie Ten Boom)";
quotes[21] = "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli";
quotes[22] = "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)";
quotes[23] = "Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. (B.C. Forbes)";
quotes[24] = "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. (Joseph Sugarman)";
quotes[25] = "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)";
quotes[26] = "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)";
quotes[27] = "There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. (George Crane)";
quotes[28] = "Opportunity...often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. (Napoleon Hill)";
quotes[29] = "•There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who haven’t a clue what’s happening.(Source unknown)";
quotes[30] = "Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Society and Solitude Ralph Waldo Emerson";
quotes[31] = "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.(Helen Keller)";
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