Inherited Quote by Judith Land

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

— Anonymous

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did…

— Kelley Armstrong

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if…

— John Mellencamp

“Traditionally, common social location meant that the two partners used the same family name. In recent years alternative patterns of naming have been developed,…

— John Howard Yoder

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

— Anne Enright

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

— Ambrose Bierce

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

— Bertrand Russell

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have…

— Spencer Wells

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully…

— Alex Haley

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.

— Wes Fesler

I am very aware of my family name. I'm very aware of the legacy that that kind of carries with it. And I think…

— Stella McCartney

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

— Sharon Cameron