The best way to honor our ancestors is to remember them. I have been researching my ancestors for fifty years, and am still finding new ones. I am on a journey that will never end. After all, it's not the destination, it's the journey, right?

"If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." — Michael Crichton

"Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands." — Linda Hogan

Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. – Unknown

And the best:

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