In Genealogy and Family History
The term blood is used in genealogical circles to refer to one's ancestry, origins, and ethnic background as in the word bloodline. Other terms where blood is used in a family history sense are blue-blood, royal blood, mixed-blood and blood relative.
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“We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.”
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Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
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And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.”
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