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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ancestry/ˈansestri/

▶noun (pl. ancestries) a person's ancestors or ethnic descent: her Irish ancestry.

'ancestry' also found in these Oxford entries:

birth - black - caboclo - full-blooded - heredity - origin - pedigree - stock - white

Forum discussions with the word(s) "ancestry" in the title:

ancestors/ancestry
ancestries/ancestry
Jew's blood / Jewish ancestry
origin / ancestry

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