Quotes on Family History

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.