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My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.
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I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit ...
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I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.
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The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
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Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
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We don't have to be blood to be family.
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A half-blood of the eldest dogs...
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A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.
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Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.
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We don't count relatives much; we are all relatives, you see.
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When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors ...
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Ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman who lived in Africa 170,000 years ago, dubbed Mitochondrial Eve.
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Family don't end with blood
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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
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For my grandfather

Quote from "INCUBUS"

The genealogical table is an important branch of life, and whether life's hand is bitter or sweet, it must be treated delicately.
- C.L. Cropper
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My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
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We are the heirs of the ages
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All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
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Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
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We're all related. We're all a family.
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The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
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Families aren't always blood. You make your own.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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Our ancestors pay the price for who we are
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Who does not wish to have noble ancestors?
Who does not wish to have noble descendants?
Even fools boast that their ancestors were sages.
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There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
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When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.
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One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.
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History is the third parent.
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The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.
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I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
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I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.
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Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures - they all have families and ancestors, just like people.
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Well, I'm not only a direct descendent of the Anunnaki, but I'm one of the original hybrids. My royal blood is almost pure as I was begotten from the strongest and most ancient of our kind.
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Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations
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Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.
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I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.
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I didn't get here based on lineage, Travis. I'm here because I work hard. The only thing that's blue in my family lineage are the collars. The blood is just red.
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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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I come from a long line of generations!
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More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
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We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
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Most family trees have
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
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Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act.
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They were touched by the same inheritance.
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We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.
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You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
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The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
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We carry our ancestors in our names and sometimes we carry our ancestors through the sliding doors of emergency rooms and either way they are heavy, man, either way we can't escape.
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We should not look down on our first ancestors.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors?
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We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them.
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These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
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We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.
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Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.
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They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.
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Maybe my descendants will make better choices where I failed."
"Your descendants? Are you planning on having a lot of descendants?"
"One day I'd like a whole army of tiny vigilantes."
"A worthy goal.
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
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There is Royalty in your DNA
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Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
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We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.
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I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.
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Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!
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Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.
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What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us?
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Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.
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Ou may not be able to choose your family or origin but you can choose your family of creation.
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Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
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The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.
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What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
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No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
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Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation
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We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
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All 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom.