#ancestry

• Ancestrality — The state, quality, or structural condition of being ancestral; a direct genetic, historical, or cultural connection to ancestors or the distant origins of a family, species, or population. In modern genetics, the term refers to determining the proportions of cellular and molecular inheritance transmitted from various ancestral groups throughout evolution.
• Ancestry — A blood relationship linking a person to their ancestors (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents); the totality of previous generations within a family. In a figurative or intellectual sense, it represents an overwhelming moral, political, cultural, or spiritual influence that someone exercises over a person or a group. In astronomy and astrology, it indicates the state or position of the zodiacal point ascending at the horizon.
• Ancestry — The series, succession, or totality of a person's ancestors, forebears, or progenitors, viewed as a genealogical line of origin; reverse lineage. Figuratively, it represents the cultural, spiritual, or intellectual origin of a movement of opinion, a work of art, or an ideology.