Definition of Ancestry

Ancestry

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

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Ancestry Quotations

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
Mick Taylor

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
Clifford D. Simak

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
Octavia Butler

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Thomas John Barnardo

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Paul Harris

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Jeff Hawkins

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Ignatius Donnelly

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
John Phillips Marquand

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Lucan

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Ancestry Translations

ancestry in French is ascendance
ancestry in German is Abstammung {f}
ancestry in Italian is presentire
ancestry in Spanish is presentir, linaje

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