"We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. ..."

"We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. ..."