Quotes About Genealogy

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

Anthropomorphic measurements and detailed genealogies were conducted, which showed that hybrid populations resulting from 'mixture' between blacks and whites displayed a homogeneity which was even greater than that found among those of 'pure' European descent.

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers. (1 CHRONICLES 6:19B)

One way of reading this genealogy is to see that we are all, as children of Adam, also children of God. We are therefore all animated by the Spirit of God.

Second, all four women in the genealogy are involved in unexpected sexual relationships. Therefore, they anticipate Joseph's learning that his betrothed is pregnant.

Matthew tells us, through the genealogy, that the birth of Jesus will be good news not only to Jews but also to gentiles.

That's why both Matthew and Luke provide genealogies placing Jesus in the line of Abraham, Judah, and King David.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Not needlessly to confound the herald with the historian, and begin a relation by a pedigree, I shall content myself to inform you [only gives, thankfully, his mother and father].

Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Spending her eighties in constant thrall to findmypast.com, familyhistory.net.au, yesterdaygeneaology.com and ancestor.com, Aunty Eily had tracked down the 1850s address of Conor Cleary's father Daniel and mother Maureen to 28 New Way, Templemore. The street still existed and the Avis car's GPS took Ryan there.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

An obscure cousin with no known antecedents. A blank space on the family tree.

Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the sun.

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.

This is true of the birth of democracy, too. Indeed, the novelty of democratic rule would not have been conceivable without the intense awareness of the common bond forged by shared genealogy as fostered by religion.

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

Plutarch (Num., 21, 3) makes the Pinarii descendants of a certain Pinus, son of Numa.