Word Finder - ancestry

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

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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.

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

Some of these tribes show traces of Malay ancestry.

This type of testing is considered more of a "deep ancestry" tool.

He was a descendant of Thomas Webster, of Scottish ancestry, who settled in New Hampshire about 1636.

Testing your mitochondrial DNA will give you some interesting insights about your ancestry, but it will not provide you with names or dates.

It is impossible to enlarge upon it here; suffice it to say that the mystical and pietistic devotion of our own day, even in the Protestant churches, is nourished on works whose ancestry can be traced, through a series of intermediate links, to the writings of the pseudoAreopagite.

Olaf, himself, may well have had Danish ancestry.

Children and adults of African ancestry have relatively longer bones in their hands and feet; the same bones in children and adults of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese ancestry are relatively shorter.

Wiskott, a physician working in Munich, described two affected boys of German ancestry who had repeated infections, a skin rash, and poor blood-clotting ability.

The Card Catalog is a searchable database of all the Ancestry collections.

Ancestry also has a hint feature that will look for matching documentation on an individual in a tree.

If you are considering a subscription, try conducting free Ancestry research first.

While Ancestry does charge a fee for a subscription, you may be able to access it for free at your public library.

While you've probably heard about the role of DNA in tracing ancestry, mitochondrial DNA might be a new concept for you.

In his book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, bestselling author Bryan Sykes proposed that nearly everyone of European descent could trace their ancestry back to one of seven women.

While it can be a useful tool in tracing ancestry, mitochondrial DNA testing will not give you specific information about your relatives.

Some schools have an ancestry event at school where the kids work with their parents to construct the basic limbs of their family tree.

Ancestry is a subscription genealogy service that hosts numerous searchable databases including birth, death and military records.

The Spermatophyta are thus land plants par excellence and have, with the few exceptions cited, lost all trace of an aquatic ancestry.

Their names vary in origin and probably also in point of age, and where they represent fixed territorial limits, the districts so described were in some cases certainly peopled by groups of non-Israelite ancestry.

In his Principles of Psychology Spencer advocates the genetic explanation of the phenomena of the adult human mind by reference to its infant and animal ancestry.

In Praeterita the author professes small knowledge of his ancestry.

It goes back far behind human birth or lines of ancestry.

In republican France the already existing titles are officially recognized, but they are now no more than the badges of distinguished ancestry.

It is generally admitted now that no fundamental anatomical difference can be proved to exist between these higher apes and man, but it is equally agreed that none probably of the Simiidae is in the direct line of human ancestry.

In most or all nations of mankind, crossing or intermarriage of races has thus taken place between the conquering invader and the conquered native, so that the language spoken by the nation may represent the results of conquest as much or more than of ancestry.

The earldom of Ulster, the old inheritance of the De Burghs, had descended to him from Lionel, duke of Clarence; the earldom of March came from the Mortimers, and the dukedom of York and the earldom of Cambridge from his paternal ancestry.

They form an intelligent, high-spirited class of people, with all the defects and virtues of their ancestry.

Chirocrinus-alter, one of of the nervous, waterthe Rhomb i fera, showing the reduced vascular and blood-vas number and regular arrangement of the cular systems, testified thecal plates, and the concentration of to their Pelmatozoan ancestry.

Much uncertainty prevails with regard to the ancestry of the group as a whole, although some of the earlier South American forms have a comparatively full series of teeth, which are also of a less degenerate type than those of their modern representatives.

There is the further possibility that creodonts may be directly descended from the carnivorous reptiles; a descent which if proved might introduce some difficulty with regard to the abovementioned theory as to the arboreal ancestry of mammals generally.

So far as it goes, this fact is also in favour of the African ancestry of the group.

For the education of its ministry it supports Manchester College at Oxford (which deduces its ancestry from the academy of Richard Frankland, begun 1670), the Unitarian Home Missionary College (founded in Manchester in 1854 by John Relly Beard, D.D., and William Gaskell), and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen.

Family pride contributed to the feeling in his case; for in his more speculative moods he could look back upon an ancestry which was of those, perhaps, who colonized the shores of the Mediterranean from before the time of the Captivity.

The study of the Sphenophyllales, however, as has been pointed out above, appears to indicate that the Equisetales and Lycopodiales may be traced back to a common ancestry.

Polled, or hornless, breeds, such as the polled Angus and polled Suffolk, are of interest, as showing how easily the horns can be eliminated, and thus indicating a hornless ancestry.

On these grounds the adversaries of Demosthenes, in after-days, used absurdly to taunt him with a traitorous or barbarian ancestry.

This, however, is perhaps a fiction of later poets who wished to give lustre to the ancestry of Brian Boruma, as very few of the Dalcais princes appear in the list of the kings of Cashel.

The Phoronidea (q.v.) are now associated with Hemichordata (q.v.) in the line of vertebrate ancestry, whilst the Chaetognatha (q.v.) remain in solitary isolation.

All the horses now on the turf or at the stud trace their ancestry in the direct male line to one or other of these three - the Byerly Turk, the barley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arabian or Barb.

You might have an Immortal bloodline somewhere in your ancestry or a simple mutation.

The Cherokee have the largest tribal affiliation in the US, but most are of mixed ancestry and do not speak the language.

South Africa is rapidly solving her own paleolithic riddles, which are closely connected with the main problem of man's ancestry.

He is the male spirit of nature and he shares a common ancestry with Pan and Dionysus.

Scotland is a land of five million and, worldwide, there are over fifty million people who can claim Scottish ancestry.

Scotland's Family A portal for everyone researching Scottish ancestry.

We have included with her known ancestry an armorial portrait that readers might find fairly represents this talented actress's unusual beauty.

I'm fourth generation Australian, a volatile mixture of Italian, Irish and Scots ancestry.

The usual stories of noble ancestry abound, but I've not been able to find out anything more.

Welcome to my Home Page Do you have any Scottish ancestry?

To possess an Irish ancestry is not a qualification for writing good Irish history.