“Getting to know our origins
gives us a sense of stability in an uncertain
and rapidly changing world.
Finding out where we came from
can help to explain and clarify the present,
and may make it easier
to focus on the future.”

   

       

~~ Perl, Lila in The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out  Who You Are

(New York: Clarion Books, 1989, p. 16)