A man can’t very well make for himself a place in the sun if he keeps continually taking refuge under the family tree.

A man who boasts only of his ancestors confesses that he belongs to a family that is better dead than alive.

Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool of himself.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

It is more important to know where your children are tonight than where your ancestors were when the Mayflower sailed.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.

Old genealogists never die. They just lose their census.