This Facebook post so eloquently describes the passion…the mission…to know our ancestors!

We are the chosen in each family
There is one who seems called to find the ancestors.
To put flesh on their bones and make them seem alive again.
To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve.
Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but instead breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the story tellers of the tribe.

~Author unknown

Do you have a favorite poem or quote that explains your passion for genealogy?

Comments:

Karen Kleinberg:
Good morning, How ironic you posted this. I have the same poem (that is much longer than this) at the end of our family history book that I am currently working on for a family reunion this summer. I have also included different genealogical quotes at the end of each generation. thank you for sharing this with everyone…..

Barbara Rodgers:
This is one of my favorites: “Moreover, my ancestors’ souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.” ~ Carl Jung