I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I…

“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make…

— Laurence Overmire

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

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from,…

— Sharon Cameron

“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

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

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

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

— Christa Wolf

“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

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

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

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

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

— Laurence Overmire

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

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

— Jo Ann V. Glim

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