Plural of ancestry; the plural forms of lines of descent or family heritage.
From Latin 'antecessor' via Old French 'ancestre,' combined with the English plural suffix '-ies.' Ancestry itself comes from the concept of going back through generations.
When you study multiple different ancestries, you're looking at different family trees—maybe discovering you have relatives from three different countries!
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