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He alone deserves to be remembered by his children who treasures up and preserves the memory of his fathers.
— Edmund Burke, 1729-1797Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose BierceGenealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.
— John Garland PollardI don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
— Abraham LincolnAll Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care. They drew long and elaborate family-trees with innumerable branches. In dealing with Hobbits it is important to remember who is related to whom, and in what degree...The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull. Hobbits delighted in such things...
— J R R TolkienSome family trees have beautiful leaves, but some just have a bunch of nuts. Remember it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking.
— UnknownI trace my family history so I will know who to blame.
— UnknownEvery family tree has some sap in it.
— UnknownFriends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
— UnknownGenealogists never die, they just loose their roots.
— UnknownGenealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need.
— UnknownGenealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!
— UnknownGenealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
— UnknownI think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.
— UnknownTake nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records.
— UnknownWhen we die we become 'stories' in the minds of other people.
— UnknownShake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
— UnknownA family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots.
— UnknownA new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.
— UnknownAm I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it.
— UnknownAny family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.
— UnknownTrees without roots fall over.
— UnknownKinship: it`s all relative!
— UnknownWhen you search for ancestors, you find great friends!
— UnknownStill trying to decorate my family tree.
— UnknownIt's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine!
— UnknownThis packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.
— Ellen Goodman, The Boston GlobeI don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
— Fred AllenA man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
— Henry S F CooperWe've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
— Jimmy CarterFamilies are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts
— UnknownA friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade- Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. — Ralph Ellison
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
— Richard Brinsley SheridanI think that I shall never see a completed genealogy.
— UnknownEvery family tree has some sap in it.
— UnknownGenealogists live in the past lane.
— UnknownOnly a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.
— UnknownIf a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his branches.
— Dolye M. DavisI guess it's hard not to agree, You say it all depends on money, And who is in your family tree.
— SupertrampIt is indeed desirable to be well descended but the glory belongs to the ancestors.
— PlutarchWe are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
— UnknownHow can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE??
— UnknownI'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.
— UnknownI'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?
— UnknownIf only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help...
— UnknownIsn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more!
— UnknownIt's 2007... Do you know where your Gr-Gr-Grandparents are?
— UnknownAfter 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted.
— UnknownEver find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
— UnknownGene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but we love it.
— UnknownGenealogists are time unravellers
— Unknown .
Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... we seek!
— Unknown"Crazy" is a relative term in my family.
— UnknownA pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.
— UnknownI want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.
— UnknownI should have asked them BEFORE they died!
— UnknownMy ancestors are giving me "Bad heir" days.
— UnknownShare your knowledge; it is a way to achieve immortality.
— UnknownMany a family tree needs pruning.
— UnknownShh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears.
— UnknownSnobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
— UnknownThat's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
— UnknownI'm not sick, I've just got fading genes.
— UnknownCousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!
— UnknownCousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree.
— UnknownAll right! Everybody out of the gene pool!
— UnknownAlways willing to share my ignorance...
— UnknownDocumentation... The hardest part of genealogy.
— UnknownGenealogy: Chasing your own tale!
— UnknownGenealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
— UnknownI researched my family tree...and apparently I don't exist.
— Unknown
Compiler: Jim Payne
Website updated on 13 Aug 2010 at 9:06:01 p.m. from TMGJIMBEV; 158 people