Buzzy Jackson > Quotes

“Genealogists: they're just grad students without the Pell Grant funding or a degree waiting for them at the end.”
― Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist

“Irish genealogy is easy,' Grenham reassured us 'given the fact that so much of it was blown up.”
― Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist

“Have you ever known me to fall in love?”
― Buzzy Jackson, To Die Beautiful

“How does evil spread? Like a disease, from one human to another? Or the way the new anti-Jewish measures sifted down into the private lives of Dutchmen, like dust in a closed room, mote by invisible mote, until one day we turned the key in the lock and found ourselves trapped, then looked back at our little room and discovered it so entombed in filth it was not fit to live in anymore?”
― Buzzy Jackson, To Die Beautiful

“Daca inca inveti din greseli, inseamna ca mai esti in viata. Ceea ce inseamna ca orice greseli ai fi facut, ele n-au contat!”
― Buzzy Jackson, To Die Beautiful

“As anyone over the age of thirty knows, Einstein was right: time really is relative. It speeds up as we get older (though it seems to slow down in airport security no matter what your age).”
― Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist

“I was once again struck by the key to genealogy: stick-to-itiveness. Yes, it takes creative thinking and knowledge of available resources, etc., but basically it takes a willingness to just keep at it and never give up. Being an optimistic idiot helps.”
― Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist