genealogy quotes

[burnt...@my-dejanews.com]

Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that
I'm organizing for my wife? Any great quotes, unless they are from
famous people, then they can just be average quotes!

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[Joe Bananas]

On Fri, 21 May 1999 18:04:06 GMT, burnt...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that
>I'm organizing for my wife?
>

"Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who."
-- Daniel Defoe, "The True-Born Englishman"

[paul petersen]

"whoever collects the most names wins, and then dies...."

anon...

Cheers, Paul

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> Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that

[pa...@nospam.havemann.com]

burnt...@my-dejanews.com says:

: Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that

: I'm organizing for my wife? Any great quotes, unless they are from
: famous people, then they can just be average quotes!

I have a Java applet on my home page which displays
many quotes about genealogy, family, and such:

http://www.havemann.com/

It includes my favorite:

"We are a bundle of our ancestors."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I'm always looking for more!

--

Paul Havemann (pa...@nospam.havemann.com)
Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/

Researching BAUER, BERESFORD, BOETHE (Ger. > USA), BROWN (No. NJ),
CONKLIN (No. NJ), FRAME, HARTUNG, HAVEMANN, HEAD (Eng. > USA),
HEWITT, KIEP (Ger. > USA), MUSTERER, WETZEL (Ger. > USA),
WINGENDORFF (Ger. > USA)

Have info related to BEHRENS (PA), HEIMOWITZ (NYC 1920s),
NOVOTNY (NYC 1920s)

[P&D Schultz]

burnt...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that
> I'm organizing for my wife?

"Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I
should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with."

-- Richard Sheridan, _The Rivals_ (1775), Act IV, Scene 1.

[Bob Gootee]

burnt...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that

> I'm organizing for my wife? Any great quotes, unless they are from
> famous people, then they can just be average quotes!
>

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Not a quote, but this was posted here sometime last year and don't know
who wrote it.

THE CENSUS TAKER

It was the first day of census, and all through the land,
each pollster was ready....a black book in his hand.
He mounted his horse for a long dust ride,
his book and some quills were tucked close by his side.
A long winding ride down a road barely there,
toward the smell of fresh bread wafting up through the air.

The woman was tired, with lines on her face,
and wisps of brown hair she'd tucked back into place.
She gave him some water....as they sat at the table,
and she answered his questions....the best she was able.
He asked he of children, Yes, she had quite a few--
the oldest was twenty, the youngest not two.

She held up a toddler with cheeks round and red;
"His sister," she whispered, "is napping in bed."
She noted each person who lived there with pride,
and she felt the faint stirrings of the wee one inside.
He noted the sex, the color, the age...
the marks from the quill soon filled up the page.

At the number of children, she nodded her head,
and saw her lips quiver for the three that were dead.
The places of birth she "never forgot,"
was it Kansas? or Utah? or Oregon?.... or not?
They came from Scotland. Of that she was clear.
But she wasn't quite sure just how long they'd been here.

They spoke of employment, of schooling and such.
They could read some, and write some....though really not much.
When the questions were answered, his job there was done,
so he mounted his horse and he rode toward the sun.
We can almost imagine his voice loud and clear,
"May God bless you all for another ten years."

Now picture a time warp....it's now you and me,
as we search for the people on our family tree.
We squint at the census and scroll down so slow,
as we search for that entry from long, long ago.
Could they only imagine on that long ago day,
that the entries they made would affect us this way?

If they knew, they would wonder at the yearning we feel,
and the searching that makes them so increasingly real.
We can hear if we listen, the words they impart,
through their blood in our veins, and their voice in our heart

--
Bob
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[Fargo]

Don't know where it comes from but my mom used to say this to people who
only wanted to find their important ancestors, not the black sheep...
"Ancestors are like potatoes...the best part is underground."

Fargo

--
"No one shows a child the sky." -- African proverb
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[John DeBoo]

Genealogy: tracing descent from someone who didn't.

burnt...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that
> I'm organizing for my wife? Any great quotes, unless they are from
> famous people, then they can just be average quotes!
>
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[Wendysk]

Here's a link to a site I found. It has links to many other quotation sites.
I've used the random quotes feature to get some quotes to use as filler for a
newsletter (accounting, not geneology) I edit.

http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/links.html

Wendy Klager

[Cherie Atkinson Clark]

While not actually a genealogy quote, I've been using this one in my emails
lately:

It's easier to love someone who's dead, they make so few mistakes
***Harvey Fierstein in "Torchsong Trilogy"***

Cherie Atkinson Clark
cher...@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/chersfmly
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's only one thing worse than being talked about...that's not being talked
about
~~~Oscar Wilde~~~

[burnt...@my-deja.com]

Thank you for all of these quotes. I'm using all of them. I look for
more!

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[Arnold&Jennifer Pomerance]

burnt...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any genealogy quotes that I can include in a book that
> I'm organizing for my wife? Any great quotes, unless they are from
> famous people, then they can just be average quotes!

I keep a small pile of cards (ie file cards) in front of the monitor to
write down interesting quotes as I find them. If possible, I always
include who had it as their sig. These are the few that are genealogy
related:

I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell out! -- Bela Gazdy

Explore life in the Past Lane. -- Minnesota Historical Society

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. -- anon

Insanity doesn't run in my family; it gallops. -- Threnody

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does
not matter that they should be accurate or even intelligible, so long as
there is enough of them. -- Lewis Carroll

JP
*Life is just one big wheel & I'm the hamster running nowhere fast. --
Hickpickle*

[wb5...@flash.net]

I would like learn the ancestry of Marilyn Monroe. Is it available on
the Net? I understand that a Robert E. Brenneman has traced her line.
Can anyone tell me how to contact him or where to find a book or
article of his about MM? Please email me at:
fortytw...@mindspring.com