#genealogy

Every family's its own trip to China. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#relations #family

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#genealogy #persona #community

... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#genealogy #origins #death

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#check #even #genealogy #going #got

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#humor #death

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

#boom #com #few #find #genealogy

She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#humor #family

History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#genealogy #history #people #biography

We are all the product of things we've never seen and people we never met. In fact, if just one little detail had been changed in their lives, we may not even exist! ↗

— Melanie Johnston

#genealogy #the-last-lord-of-paradise #change