- ancestorI discovered that one of my ancestors was a member of King Henry VIII's court.
- forebearMy forebears were enslaved and brought to this country.
- forefatherI visited the land of my forefathers.
- ancestryDNA tests tell me that I have Native American ancestry.
- extractionMy family is of Italian extraction.
- family treeSince many families will be gathering for the holiday, it's a perfect time to create a family tree.
Meaning of ancestry in English
Examples of ancestry
ancestry
Some are poor, and some are stateless bidoon -- people long denied citizenship despite generations of ancestry.
From Foreign Policy
It's impossible to identify a person's ancestry definitively from a single bone.
From Slate Magazine
In any case, we will not look at religious affiliation alone but also ancestry.
From Gizmodo
On the flip side, there was negative selection to systematically remove ancestry that may have been problematic from modern humans.
From Phys.Org
But progenitors anywhere in the middle, which constitute the overwhelming majority of a person's ancestry, are harder to trace, especially as the tree broadens.
From Slate Magazine
Those of us of northern european ancestry inherited lactose tolerance genes because milk conveyed a survival advantage.
From TIME
He could have paid a genealogist to uncover his ancestry, if privacy was what he wanted.
From CNN
Our parents reminded us of our rich ancestry.
From Huffington Post
He's lost his mother and can't tamp down dangerous rumors about his ancestry.
From Chicago Tribune
Not all tangosmaos were of mixed ancestry, and not all people of mixed ancestry were tangosmaos.
From Slate Magazine
And the idea there is that the nation, the people are bonded together through ancestry.
From NPR
I say let those southern boys be proud of their ancestry.
From Voice of America
That's quite the odyssey for an animal that can ultimately trace its ancestry to dinosaurs.
From NPR
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