"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."-- Alex Haley
"This is the Genealogy Department of the Public Library, Mr. Thornapple..." "We have started to trace your family roots and have made a discovery concerning your late grandfather..." "Yes? Yes?" "You are responsible for his accrued fines of $1,112.29!" --Art Sansom
A family historian who was writing his family history was dismayed to find that an ancestor had been publicly hanged. In a moment of inspiration he wrote "He died during a public ceremony, when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed beneath him." Another family historian finding that a relative had been sent to the "chair" wrote "At the time of his death, he occupied a chair of applied electricity at one of our most famous institutions." --Author Unknown
"If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy of reading, Or do things worthy of writing." --Benjamin Franklin, May 1738
Epitaph in Nantucket, Massachusetts 1880:Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease: He is not here, there's only the pod, Pease shelled out and went to God.
"We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn ... betrays its ancestor." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A marker in Enosburg Falls, Vermont: Here lies the body of our dead Anna gone to death by a banana It wasn't the fruit that dealt the blow But the skin of the thing that laid her low!
High Society: "My family's ancestry is very old," said one club member trying to impress the group. "We can be traced back to the early kings of Europe." Then, turning to a lady sitting nearby, she asked, "And how old is your family, my dear?" "I don't really know," replied the lady with a sweet smile. "All our family records were lost in the great flood."
May all your ancestors be like vegetables in the fall -- turnip!!! --Author Unknown
There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children one is roots; the other, wings. --Anonymous
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