Genealogy Top 50 Quotes

My family coat of arms ties at the back... is that normal?

My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated.

My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!

Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets.

How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE??

I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap.

I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.

I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?

If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help...

Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more!

It's 2001... Do you know where your -Gr-Gr-Grandparents are?

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots.

A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away.

After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted

Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it.

Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.

Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?

FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.

Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but we love it.

Genealogists are time unravellers.

Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... we seek!

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.

"Crazy" is a relative term in my family.

A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor.

I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand.

I should have asked them BEFORE they died!

My ancestors are giving me "Bad heir" days.

I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower.

Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.

Share your knowledge; it is a way to achieve immortality.

Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!

It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening nor a thief.

Many a family tree needs pruning.

Shh!  Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!

That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!

I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes.

Genealogists live in the past lane.

Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!

Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree.

All right! Everybody out of the gene pool!

Always willing to share my ignorance...

Documentation... The hardest part of genealogy.

Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!

Genealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?

That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards.

I researched my family tree...and apparently I don't exist.

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