85 Quotes About Genealogy
- Author Laurence Overmire
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One can never be 100% certain when it comes to family lineage. One must always keep an open mind, willing to go wherever the facts may lead.
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- Author Wallace Stegner
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…the understanding of any person is an exercise in genealogy. A man is not a static organism to be taken apart and analyzed and classified. A man is movement, motion, a continuum. There is no beginning to him. He runs through his ancestors, and the only beginning is the primal beginning of the single cell in the slime. The proper study of mankind is man, but man is an endless curve on the eternal graph paper, and who can see the whole curve?
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- Author Barbara Kingsolver
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Every family's its own trip to China.
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- Author Stephen Robert Kuta
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We are just stars in our family's constellation
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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Some of us are given more time on this Earth than others, but none of us should ever take the gift of life for granted. If we strive to be the best we can be, committing ourselves to what is right and true, while helping others along the way, then we will leave our own story worth the telling and be a shining example for our children and our grandchildren and all those great, great, great, great grandchildren in those far off times to come.
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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An honest, poor, but otherwise unremarkable man and his loving, tender-hearted wife, though long forgotten and lost to history, may have been the ancestors who are most worthy of our admiration today.
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- Author Lynda I Fisher
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My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep.
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
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- Author Laurence Overmire
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Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
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