A Commonplace Book

Category: ancestry...

  • visiting Ellis Island to touch the spot where your ancestors came to America
  • learning the language(s) and visiting the land(s) of your ancestors
  • ancestor is from Latin ante 'before' and cedere/cessum 'to go'
  • seeing your grandparents' house again after they are gone
  • recorded stories from grandparents for grandchildren
  • helping a grandparent blow out their birthday candles
  • finding a long-lost relative
  • discovering the meaning of your first and last names
  • Consider that all sentient beings in the universe have been your mother at some point in time, according to Buddhism.
  • I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. (Sir William S. Gilbert)
  • A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. (Charles Darwin)

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