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Genealogy Quotes on Heritage and Family History

Tracing roots, honoring heritage

These quotes reflect on the particular challenge many Black Americans face when tracing genealogy, since historical records often erase generations of family history.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Xavier Woods

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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Tariq Ali

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

Quotes by Kevin Young

Black Americans
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Gina McKee

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Daniel Dennett

Others describe genealogy as a quiet family tradition, with someone in the family — often keeping the family Bible — acting as the unofficial historian.

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