Ancestry

Definition: Ancestry

Ancestry

Noun

1. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors".

2. Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ancestry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ancestry \An"ces*try\, noun. [Compare to Old French ancesserie. See Ancestor.]. (references)

Census

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ancestry

Continuity

Pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain.

Paternity

House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.

The Past

Ancestry; (paternity).

Crosswords: Ancestry

They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

Of my primitive ancestry (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

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Books

• Cherokee by Blood: Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1910: Applications (reference)

• Royal Highness : ancestry of the royal child (reference)

• The Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris (reference)

• Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry (reference)

• Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ancestry (reference)

• Ancestry Trails (reference)

• Autauga Ancestry (reference)

• Connecticut Ancestry (reference)

• Race & Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• England & Your English Ancestry (reference)

• Wales and Your Welsh Ancestry (reference)

• Your Noble Scottish Ancestry (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Girls of Japanese ancestry playing softball at war relocation authority center, Manzanar, California: Ritsuko Masuda and Marion Fujii with hands on bat, before choosing sides. Credit: Library of Congress.

Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., Apr. 1942--Evacuees of Japanese ancestry passing into the dining hall for lunch where more than 2,000 meals are served in less than an hour--These evacuees will be transferred later to War relocation centers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mountain View, Calif., April 1942 - a grandmother and the youngest of 13 grandchildren photographed on a ranch in Santa Clara county before evacuees of Japanese ancestry were transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war. Credit: Library of Congress.

San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A dry goods store closing out its merchandise shortly before the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Post and Buchanan streets neighborhood of San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arcadia, Calif. April 1942--All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manzanar, Calif., May 1942--Girls at the ice cream bar in the community store of the War relocation authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration of the war Foreground, left to right, Florence Yamaguchi, Nancy Kawashimi, Flo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas,Calif., prior to transfer to a War Relocation Authority center. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign on building in San Marcos, Texas. Cotton is the main crop in this section and farmers of German ancestry predominate. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese enlistment. Another truckload of American citizens of Japanese ancestry arrive at Selective Service Board No. 9, Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to apply for voluntary induction into the recently organized combat regiment made up exclusively of 1,5. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) volunteers to be inducted into the U.S. Army Combat Regiment now being formed, 18-year-old Mitsura Doi of Kauai, Hawaii, garage worker, receives con. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For example, lupus is more common in African-American and Hispanic women than in Caucasian women of European ancestry. (references)

Although Canavan disease may occur in any ethnic group, it affects persons of Eastern European Jewish ancestry more frequently. (references)

For immigrants of Portuguese ancestry in New England, the prevalence is around one in 4,000. The highest prevalence in the world, about one in 140, occurs on the small Azorean island of Flores. (references)

Discrimination

Zambia

Constitutional amendments barring native-born citizens of partial or full foreign ancestry from the presidency appear to violate the prohibition on discrimination based on place of origin. (references)

Portugal

The Constitution forbids discrimination based on ancestry, sex, language, origin, religion, political or ideological convictions, education, economic situation, or social condition; however, some discrimination against women and ethnic minorities persisted. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Most have Spanish ancestry. (references)

Human Rights

Iraq

Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimated the total at between 70,000 and 150,000, and AI at more than 100,000. The second largest group of cases known to the Special Rapporteur consists of Shi'a Muslims who were reported to have disappeared in the late 1970's and early 1980's as their families were expelled to Iran due to their alleged Persian ancestry. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

President Toledo is the country's first elected president who comes from mixed Caucasian and indigenous ancestry. (references)

Minorities

Mauritius

Citizens of Chinese ancestry usually practice Buddhism and Catholicism. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

Charles G. Taylor, who is of both indigenous and Americo-Liberian ancestry, has led the Government since 1996, when forces under his command emerged dominant after a 7-year civil war. (references)

Travel

Israel

Except during periods of closures, U.S. citizens, except those of Palestinian ancestry may enter and exit Gaza and the West Bank on a U.S. passport with an Israeli visa. (references)

Israel

Americans of Palestinian ancestry may be subject to more particular restrictions and should read the Consular Information Sheet for Israel, cited above, or call the Embassy or Consulate General in Jerusalem for the latest updates. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "ancestry": Asian-ancestry.

Albanian

të parët, origjinë (extraction, filiation, fountain-head, origin, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, source). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سلالة (blood, descent, genealogy, line, offspring, parentage, progeny, race, stock, strain), ‏أسلاف (antecedents, predecessors), ‏أصل (beginning, birth, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, source, stock, strain, taproot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

семеен произход, родословие (genealogy, pedigree, tree), благородно потекло, прадеди, потекло (descent, house, lineage, origin, parentage, provenance, provenience, stock). (various references)

Chinese 

祖辈. (various references)

Czech

rod (clan, gender, generation, genus, kin, parentage, species, stock, tribe), předkové (forebear), pùvod (antecedent, derivation, descent, extraction, nascency, origin, origination, origins, parent, parentage, provenance, root, source, stock). (various references)

Farsi 

تبار (Antecedent, Pedigree, Race, Tribe), دودمان (Antecedent, Dynasty, Genealogy, Lineage, Pedigree, Phylum, Progeny, Stem). (various references)

Finnish

sukuselvitys, suku (birth, extraction, family, gender, genus, house, kin, lineage, stock, strain). (various references)

French

ascendance. (various references)

German

Abstammung (ancestory, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, lineage, origin, parentage, stock, tribe). (various references)

Greek 

καταγωγή (derivation, descent, extraction, lineage, origin, parentage). (various references)

Hebrew 

יוחסין (genealogy, lineage, pedigree), שושלת (dynasty, family tree, genealogy, pedigree). (various references)

Hungarian

származás (birth, class background, derivation, descent, extraction, origin, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, stock), ősök (antecedents, parentage). (various references)

Indonesian

leluhur. (various references)

Italian

ascendenza (ascendance, ascendancy), stirpe (birth, bloods, descent, extraction, family, family name, ilk, offspring, pedigree, stock), presentire (forefathers, suspect), lignaggio (descent, kin, kith, lineage, origin). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

系統 (family line, geological formation, lineage, system). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいとう (admiration, adoration, cockscomb, concentration on, family line, geological formation, idolizing, lineage, name of flower, relieving thepitcher, system). (various references)

Korean 

가계. (various references)

Manx

shennayraghyn, shennayraght (primogeniture). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancestryay.(various references)

Portuguese

antepassados (ancestors), ramo (bough, branch, bunch, bush, cluster, metier, offshoot, twig), linhagem (blood, climbdown, descent, down, downhill, extraction, family, line, lineage, parentage, provenance, sackcloth), descendência (birth, filiation, seed, spawn, strain, succession). (various references)

Romanian

ascendenţã (descent, parentage), strãmoşi (ancestors, elder, great-grandfathers, parentage, people, root), strãbuni (ancestors, parentage, people, root), origine (beginning, birth, blood, cause, commencement, derivation, descent, emanation, etymology, extraction, fountain-head, genesis, growth, origin, origination, parent, parentage, provenance, rise, root, root stock, source, spring, strain), neam (blood, breed, brood, descent, extraction, family, kind, kinsman, line, lineage, name, nation, origin, people, persuasion, race, relation, relative, remove, sort, species, stem, stock, strain, tribe). (various references)

Russian 

происхождение (ancestries, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, genesis, lineage, origin, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preci (forebears), poreklo (birth, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, nascency, origin, origins, provenance, provenience, source, stock, vintage). (various references)

Spanish

linaje (birth, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree). (various references)

Swedish

börd (birth, descent, lineage, parentage), anor. (various references)

Turkish

atalar (stirpes), soy (ancestor, ancestors, birth, breed, cion, extraction, family, flesh and blood, genealogy, lineage, noble, offshoot, parentage, pedigree, phylo-, posterity, progeny, race, stirpes, stirps, stock, strain), ecdat. (various references)

Ukrainian

стародавній рід, рід (breed, brood, clan, gender, genus, kind, kindred, lineage, name, nature, order, specie, species, stem, stock, type), родовід (bead-roll, genealogy, lineage, pedigree, tree), предки, походження (beginning, birth, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, original, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, source, strain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tổ tiên (ancestor, forefathers, predecessor, primogenitor), tổ tông, tông môn dòng họ. (various references)

Welsh

ach (degree of kinship, pedigree, ugh), hynafiad (ancestor). (various references)

Misspellings

"Ancestry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ancestory, ancestre. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: canters, carnets, carneys, nectars, nectary, recants, scanter, sectary, tanrecs, trances.

-2 letters: antres, ascent, astern, caners, canter, carets, carnet, carney, cartes, casern, caster, caters, centas, centra, cranes, crates, creasy, enacts, encyst, estray, nacres, nectar, rances, reacts, recant, recast, scanty, scarey, secant, senary, sentry, stance, stayer, sterna, tanrec, traces, trance, yarest, yearns, yentas.

-3 letters: acnes.

+1 letter: insectary.

+2 letters: corybantes, transiency.

+3 letters: ancestrally, antisecrecy, astringency, countryseat, crystalline, predynastic, presynaptic.

+4 letters: antihysteric, antipyretics, compensatory, consecratory, conservatory, counterplays, countryseats, cybernations, discrepantly, entranceways, glycerinates, granulocytes, lycanthropes, scatteringly, secretionary, subcentrally, translucency, transparency, tyrannicides, unhysterical.

+5 letters: agranulocytes, antihysterics, antisymmetric, chrysanthemum, considerately, constellatory, constrainedly, contrastively, crestfallenly, cryptanalyses, cytomembranes, discretionary, extrinsically, lycanthropies, nonhysterical, parasynthetic, postsecondary, proteoglycans, sacramentally, saprogenicity, tetracyclines, transcendency, translucently, unsymmetrical.