We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors,and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. -- Don Marquis
Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. -- Howard Kenneth Nixon
Why waste your money looking up your family tree, just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.-- Mark Twain
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.- Thomas Jefferson
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.- George William Curtiss
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us- Oscar Wilde
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.- Alexander Smith
A good name is more desirable than great riches...- Ecclesiastes 7:1
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass- Sioux Proverb
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.- Chinese Proverb
The only way to look into the future is by standing on the shoulders of the past.
Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress
Genealogists are ancestrally challenged.
I think that I shall never see . . . a finished genealogy!
Having children is hereditary. If your parents hadn't had any, neither could you!
Genealogy - where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
Shake any family tree and you're bound to get a few nuts.
Genealogy is not fatal, but it is a grave disease.
A historian tells history. A genealogist tells his story.
A family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots.
Pruning of the Family Tree is NOT permitted!
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back
Education is a funny thing. At eighteen we knew all the answers - fifty years later, even the questions confuse us.
Our children are living messages we send to a time and place we will never see."
