Genealogy for the Funnybone
Apr 12th, 2005 | Alison Moore Smith |
- “My ancestry goes all the way back to Alexander the Great,” said one lady. She then turned to a second lady and asked, “And how far does your family go back?”
“I don’t know,” was the reply. “All of our records were lost in the Flood.”
- Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
- I trace my family history so I will know who to blame.
- Can a first cousin, once removed, return?
- Do I even want ancestors?
- Every family tree has some sap in it.
- Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
- Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots.
- Genealogy: A haystack full of needles. It’s the threads I need.
- Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
- Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
- I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.
- Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
- Theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we’re all related.
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