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Genealogy Poems and Quotes

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Genealogy

Genealogy begins as an interest,

Becomes a hobby,

Continues as an avocation,

Takes over as an obsession and in its last stages

Is an incurable disease.

Old genealogist never die they just lose their census

Would They?

If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, there might be some among them whom you wouldn't care to know. But there's another matter, which requires a different view; if you could see your ancestors, would they be proud of you?

- Rufus Craig

Try Genealogy - You can't get fired and you can't quit.

Genealogy - where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.

Whoever said "Seek and ye shall find" was not a genealogist

Quotes!

The records you need for your family history were in the courthouse that burned.

The only surname not found among the three billion in the Mormon Archives is yours

The 4 volume, 4,800 page history of the county where your great-grandfather lived is not indexed.

Your grandmother’s maiden name for which you’ve searched for years was on an old letter in a box in the attic all the time.

Brittle old newspapers containing the information you desired have fallen apart on the names and dates and places

The portion of the index you need is continued in the next, only the publisher died prior to publication.

I Wish Someone Would Visit My Grave, by Catherine Mary Hobart (1791-1814) - this was contributed by Tom Nagy