one's family or ethnic descent; lineage
from Old French 'ancestrie', from 'ancestre' meaning 'ancestor', from Latin 'antecessor'
Your ancestry literally refers to those who went before you - the Latin root 'ante' means 'before'! With DNA testing, people are rediscovering ancestries they never knew they had.
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