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22 Genealogy Quotes

Genealogy is an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms. Genealogy means descent from an original form or progenitor, lineage, or ancestry. The term “genealogy” is used in two ways. By one definition, it is the search for family history. The second way the term can be used is to describe the descendants of a specific ancestor. Genealogy is one of the most popular hobbies in the United States and a billion-dollar industry. Genealogy is what actually goes into tracking down ancestors—let alone putting information about them into any kind of context. This is a collection of 22 Genealogy Quotes and Sayings.


Politics is always related to the history and genealogy. - Toba Beta
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. - Ambrose Bierce
Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone. - Neil Kurshan
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. - Orson Scott Card
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. - Tim Wise
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. - Daniel Dennett
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. - Laurence Overmire
If you are lucky enough to be a genealogist, you are lucky enough. - Ruth Padilla
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. - Henry Louis Gates
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. - Tariq Ali
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul. - Terry Tempest Williams
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. -John C. Maxwell
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. - W. H. Auden
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. - Roger L'Estrange
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. - Thomas Carlyle
Everyone has a story. Every story matters. - Nicole Wedemeyer Miller
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. - Sydney J. Harris
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. - Laurence Overmire
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