85 Quotes About Genealogy

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

This time their kiss would last for generations.

Tradition is the glue that binds past with present, and eventually with the future. As traditions are passed down, we get a chance to reach back and touch one small part of our history.

When you trace your genealogy, you find connections to many of the people and events that shaped history. History is not the story of some old irrelevant strangers. No. History is your story. Your family was there - your grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces. If not for them, you wouldn't even be here.

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

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

My annual pilgrimages to the dead involve a good deal of talking to myself (which serves as my principal internal gyroscope) and increasingly confirm that the older I get the more the dead take hold of me. I like the notion that my heart is a temple of memory in which they intermittently reside. I feel compelled, in some way or other, to complete their lives, to honor their gifts and sacrifices.