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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. -- Ambrose Bierce
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. -- Sydney J. Harris
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. -- Daniel Dennett
Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format. -- John Steele Gordon
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy. -- Harvey Weinstein
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. -- Bob Edwards
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. -- Rory Bremner
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. -- Tim Wise
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The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. -- Joan Didion
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. -- Laurence Overmire
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. -- W. H. Auden
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies. -- Talal Asad
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations. -- Gina McKee
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind. -- Charles Darwin
I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples. -- Heber J. Grant
The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. -- Henry Louis Gates
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. -- Rebecca Solnit
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope. -- Michael Robotham
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
He traced the genealogy of the feeling. -- Zadie Smith
Politics is always related to the history and genealogy. -- Toba Beta
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk. -- Mark Batterson
I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing. -- Sharon Cameron
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. -- Florence King
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy. -- Sean Wilsey

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