Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it’s funny, sad and very different, you’ll love the characters and the stories.

I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative,...

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another...

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I suppose it must be admitted that I was raised in a “dysfunctional” family, but in truth, I do not think I had any sense of that as I was growing up. Probably part of...

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I have had my mother’s wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way...

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.

History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

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.

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.