I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was interested in family history, especially African American women.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.