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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. -- Rick Moody
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. -- Marcel Proust
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. -- Johann Georg Hamann
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. -- Kim Edwards
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. -- Ambrose Bierce
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. -- Alex Haley
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history. -- Nola Ochs
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. -- Rutherford B. Hayes

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