The narrator of this anecdote heard it from his grandmother, Rebbetzin Reiza’le, who was the daughter of Rabbi Yosef David Arliker.—She was the wife of R. Mordekhai Warshilivker.—Rebbetzin Reiza’le heard the story from her mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Dina'le, who was the eldest daughter of the Rabbi of Apta and the wife of Rabbi Yisrael of Litchnitz. 

The Rabbi of Apta once remarked to her daughter, "My dear daughter, I fear that if it is not enough that my descendants will not become rebbes themselves, they will also become apikorsim (heretics). They will think that as they are nothing [/good-for-nothing], we were also nothing [/good-for-nothing]”

Y.F.