Care Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“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

“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls…

— Joshua Ferris

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

“We don't put much stock in genealogy where I'm from [...] It's assumed that you're kind of a loser if you have to sink…

— Lisa Cach

“Full confession: I am not dispassionate and unbiased. I didn't come to genetic genealogy services to be underwhelmed or go back to a vague…

— Michael W. Twitty

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

“A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history is not…

— Leon Morris

“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.”

— Anne Rice

“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of…

— Ayn Rand

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back…

— Henry Louis Gates

I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have…

— Kim Edwards