Associations to the word «Ancestry»

Wiktionary

ANCESTRY, noun. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
ANCESTRY, noun. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Dictionary definition

ANCESTRY, noun. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors".
ANCESTRY, noun. Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin