Chance Quote by Ant McPartlin

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper…

— Henry Louis Gates

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more…

— Bryan Sykes

“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

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…

— Henry Louis Gates

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

— Henry Louis Gates

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always…

— Nola Ochs

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share…

— A. J. Jacobs

“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

“Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That’s why I needed ancestry.com.”

— Gordon Korman

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only…

— Robert Barry

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

The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube…

— Henry Louis Gates