Our Favorite Genealogy Quotes

We Hope You Enjoy Them

• Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

  ~ Mark Twain
• Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.

  ~ Howard K. Nixon
• We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

  ~ Jimmy Carter
• Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.

  ~ Florence King
• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  ~ Ellen