Preserve the past. Genealogy is not fatal, but it is a grave disease. Genealogist's don't die they just lose their census. Most of my family roots are underground. Genealogists are ancestrally challenged.
Genealogists do it in the library.
Genealogists do it off the record. Genealogists do it with a computer. Genealogists do it for the memories. Genealogists are time unravelers. Genealogy is people collecting people.