Meaning & use
ancestry
A person's family or ethnic descent, traced back through earlier generations.
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A DNA test revealed that her ancestry included roots in three different continents.
He researched his family's ancestry back to farmers who settled the valley in the 1800s.
A note on using this word
Ancestry refers to where a person's family came from, distinct from 'ancestor', which names an individual person in that line.
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