• Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. particularly
2. ancestor
3. descent
4. trace

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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. by : Ambrose Bierce

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