Definition of Ancestry. Meaning of Ancestry. Synonyms of Ancestry

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Definition of Ancestry

Ancestry
Ancestry An"ces*try, n. [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See Ancestor.] 1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. --Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Meaning of Ancestry from wikipedia

- Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of...
- evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal...
- American ancestry refers to people in the United States who self-identify their ancestral origin or descent as "American", rather than the more common...
- ancestry German ancestry Gr**** ancestry Hungarian ancestry Icelandic ancestry Irish ancestry Lithuanian ancestry Norwegian ancestry Polish ancestry Portuguese...
- po****tions. This ancestry is often referred to as Yamnaya ancestry, Yamnaya-related ancestry, Steppe ancestry or Steppe-related ancestry. Western Steppe...
- capita income for U.S. residents, organized by race and ethnicity and ancestry (as of 2015). The United States Census has race and ethnicity as defined...
- Very little is known for certain of the ancestry of the Godwins, the family of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, HaroldĀ II. When King Edward the Confessor...
- (Swedish: svenskar) are a ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other...
- ****imilated, meaning that many modern Germans have substantial Slavic ancestry. From the 12th century, many Germans settled as merchants and craftsmen...
- speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons...