Rory Bremner

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.

British Comedian

Jesmyn Ward

It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.

American Novelist

Xavier Woods

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.

American Wrestler

Bob Edwards

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

American Journalist

Julie Payette

My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.

Canadian Politician

Henry Louis Gates

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

American Critic

Gina McKee

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

English Actor

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

American Writer

Tariq Ali

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

Pakistani Historian

Daniel Dennett

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

American Philosopher

Treated as a scholarly subject, often researched in libraries and archives.

Academic Field

Genealogy can reveal social status and property inheritance patterns in history.

Historical Context

Modern genealogy often includes DNA testing to determine ancestry.

DNA Genealogy

Writing a genealogy can be a long-term hobby to learn about one’s lineage.

Personal Project

A family genealogy can be a treasured keepsake passed down through generations.

Heirloom Value

A genealogy often requires skills in research and documenting findings.

Gifted Genealogist

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Medicine's future?...

 full of cousins. And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me. So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field, but it turns out it's going through a fascinating

The world's largest...

 women and says you guys know who this is right and we're all sitting there like awkwardly and she goes this is nancy grace roman this is the mother of the hubble telescope right so it was also important because she was giving us a lesson in genealogy in astronomy and and

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...

 We can see trees being used to map consanguinity, the various blood ties between people. We can also see trees being used to map genealogy, perhaps the most famous archetype of the tree diagram. I think many of you in the audience have probably seen family trees.

A Visual History of...

 We traced genealogies back eight generations, and we found two instances of natural death and when we pressured the people a little bit about it, they admitted that one of the fellows had gotten so old that he died getting old, so we speared him anyway.

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 I learned family history can help you better understand yourself others in the past but it is critically important for another reason from the human genome project to the plur if eration of genealogy sites we are discovering our

A genealogical journey PIPE...

 different species of dinosaur toy a nutrition by studying these finds we'll be able to understand the whole picture of dinosaur evolution they're very exciting discoveries the scientists begin to unravel the genealogies of

Fossil Record Mystery PIPE...

 You can do a very simple scrape your cheek; send it off. You can find out where your relatives come from; you can do your genealogy going back thousands of years. We can understand functionality. This is really important.

Barry Schuler: An...

 while the reality of autism was much more colorful and diverse. Some kids couldn't talk at all, while others waxed on at length about their fascination with astrophysics, dinosaurs or the genealogy of royalty.

Steve Silberman: The...

 It involves curiosity, non-insignificant levels of self-indulgence and is centered around recording the reproductive activities of other people. Of course, I'm talking about genealogy --