The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.
Kelly CherryEvery person is defined by the communities she belongs to.
Orson Scott CardTag: community persona genealogy
Nuclear didn't describe families. How could it? Dry physics was not equal to that task. In the twentieth century we needed a biological metaphor, Darwinian in scope, to suggest the gnash and crash of carnivorous life in the family gene pool. But for the 21st century, the new century, I think the metaphors must be chemical. Molecular. In the molecular family people are connected without being bound. They spindle themselves around shared experiences and affections rather than splashing in the shared gene pool.
Laura KalpakianEvery family's its own trip to China.
Barbara KingsolverThe past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
Joan DidionHistory is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas CarlyleTag: history people genealogy biographies
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 of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth.
I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… deterministic.
Tag: determinism history africa investigation journalism ancestry genetics genealogy british-isles central-europe eastern-europe levant mediterranean-sea national-geographic savanna sub-saharan-africa
... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.
Amin MaaloufTag: genealogy origins family-saga
She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person.
Rett MacPhersonMost people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.
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