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What is an ancestry?

What is an ancestry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
  2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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Such ideas of shared ancestry with Americans, and especially Afro-Americans, persist to the present.
Although the Mi'kmaq camped in the area in summer for hundreds of years, today the people of this area are predominantly of Acadian ancestry.
Nevertheless, by evoking the Grape Society, the painter alluded to a literary ancestry.
To a large extent, the linguistic classification corresponds to the historical records regarding the ancestry of East Asians.
A criollo in Argentina is a person or a family descended from Spanish ancestry, in other words, no added mixture of non-Spanish blood.
Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.

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