A Message from Mr. President

"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better." Barack Obama

Quote for today

The further back you can look, the further forward you can see (Winston Churchill)

Chinese Proverb

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source,a tree without a root.

Genealogy Quote

I just came across this quote from George Bernard Shaw:

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

Really pertinent for those of us with crims, bigamists and shifty characters in our trees.

“My first advice on how not to grow old, is to choose your ancestors carefully.” Bertrand Russell

“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” Ralph Waldo Emmerson.