The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own…

The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself…

— Tom Brown, Jr

“A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

— Laurence Overmire

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for…

— Rebecca Solnit

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be…

— Kevin Young

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search…

— Henry Wiencek

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

— Christa Wolf

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

— Alex Haley

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in…

— Roger L'Estrange

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar.…

— Adrienne Monnier

“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of…

— Ellen Meloy

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims,…

— Michael Parenti

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem…

— Madeleine L'Engle