Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Genealogy. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Genealogy Quotes And Sayings by 99 Authors including Tupac Shakur,Diane Ackerman,Jimmy Carter,Robert Southey,Gareth J. Nelson for you to enjoy and share.

Genealogy Quotes : pic 001695148
My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000827256
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001189515
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000668723
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001001024
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000073861
In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000316847
Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000150927
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000706994
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001366466
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000296669
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000292216
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000330639
We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000540849
Genealogists live in the past lane.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001379328
History is the science of people.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001377785
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000064925
Your family's history does not have to be your future legacy!
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000323868
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000883852
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000674846
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001242374
Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000704694
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001152210
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001233778
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000881628
Your ancestors are a ladder;
upon them climb.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000687467
You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001665674
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001868833
kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001743001
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000374671
Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001711539
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000653400
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 thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000574382
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000674451
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000470999
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000238577
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001660209
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001261623
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000082693
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001204582
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have a great grandfather on my mother's side who was a musician, and I'd like to know more about his life.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001203158
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000307535
The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000062690
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001092137
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001061625
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001873102
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000738011
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000103330
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001057583
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000744663
The notes one of my uncles (who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000899021
The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001764466
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000349159
Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000703285
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001522353
What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001068565
Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000017969
All family histories, personal histories,are as sketchy and unreliable as histories of the Phoenicians, it seems to me. We should note everything down, fill in the wide gaps if we can. Which is why I am writing this my darlings.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000311098
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000038888
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001621898
flourished between three generations
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000084475
There is Royalty in your DNA
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001202710
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001459787
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000017822
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001046879
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000271080
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000038961
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000215236
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000541705
Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001298172
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001289440
It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001679089
A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001779933
One can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001715295
He could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents,
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001850295
Family don't end with blood
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001672215
Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000349145
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000948378
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 ...
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001734263
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001540086
You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000775798
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000914769
The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000280260
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000671961
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
messages, galvanizing my genes.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000852138
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000448070
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000483687
Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000234188
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000630199
She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
"Of course, she's insane. That would be your genealogy by the way.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001464189
History is as Old as My Grandfather
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000708558
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001341751
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001725128
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.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000374863
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000161821
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 001745121
Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000523328
One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000088522
Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000017957
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Genealogy Quotes : pic 000717619
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.