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From: Ted Swift< >
Subject: Re: Genealogy Jokes
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:22:10 -0800


Cynthia Van Ness forwarded Margaret Tufts one-liners:

>> Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots.

Or, "Old genealogists never die; they just lose their census".

>> Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

I'm finding this becomes more true every day!

>> Research: What I'm doing, when I don't know what I'm doing.

Interestingly, this is almost a direct quote from Werner Von Braun,
the rocket developer, when someone asked him what research was. If
we knew what it was, we wouldn't be doing it.

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Ted Swift and Anne Hillman Swift "The boundary is the best place
to gain knowledge"
-Paul Tillic

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