It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
We have speakers each month, but the real thing is to get people involved who are interested in looking into their ancestry and helping the historical society preserve records into a usable form. Hopefully we are meeting the needs of these people and the society as well.
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?