My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

quote by Carroll O'Connor
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

quote by Ambrose Bierce
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A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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over the cooking
mom in law's lesson
on family's genealogy

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Love And Hatred

Love!
It is in the blood and,
It is in the bloodline;
Hatred!
It is in the blood and,
It is in the bloodline;
But, the eyes of the Creator watches us all on this earth;
However, love is for peace and hatred is for war! !

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

quote by Marcel Proust
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Haunted By My Own

Haunted by my own.
Haunted by a bloodline...
My ancestors have sewn.
And I confess...
My obsession to do my best!
This wont leave me alone.
I feel I am here,
To make their voices known.
I can not neglect a moment of respect.
To be perceived as a disrespect.
I must protect and protest indignities!
Haunted by my own.
Haunted by a bloodline...
My ancestors have sewn.
And I confess...
The challenge to please them,
Leaves me restless to achieve.
To heights of a success...
That will have all believe I have succeeded.
And my ancestors can attest,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Pastors

'New Vision Party' led by Pastors,
They are now into the political race to stand for a President;
But what have they done to the collection plates? ! !

Of the genealogical history of the heavens,
Of the genealogical history of the earth,
The light is day and the darkness is night;
So try to gain wisdom on this issue before it is too late!
For the collection plates are not even enough for these Pastors.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Derivation

The cause taken for an effect
And the effect taken for a cause
Are as per your derivation.
They may or may not be factual.
09.12.2011

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

quote by Nicolas Martin
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

quote by James Earl Jones
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We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.

quote by Esai Morales
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Nobleness is not noble ancestry.

Swahili proverbs
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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

quote by John McCarthy
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All people share the same ancestry.

Botswana proverbs
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Do What Is Right Always

Fables,
False doctrines,
Endless genealogies to wake up from your sleep;
But the ultimate result of life is beside you,
And you have to do what is right always in this life.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

quote by Jeff Hawkins
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

quote by Rick Moody
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Blowing Stones

dancing with reeds
ancestor's wind
from the sacred mountain

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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