Ancestry definition

Ancestry means national origin; an individual's or ancestor's place of origin; or the physical, cultural, or linguistic characteristics of an ethnic group, or:
Ancestry means the citizenship, country of origin, or national origin.
Ancestry means a person’s self-identified origin, descent, lineage, nationality group, or country in which the person or person’s parents or ancestors were born.

Examples of Ancestry in a sentence

  • Employees subject to NVIT’s continued right to exercise a preference for hiring people of Aboriginal Ancestry.

  • Marital status; National origin; Ancestry; Sexual orientation; Genetic information; Disabled veteran; Veteran status; Physical or mental disabilities (including learning disabilities, mental retardation, past/present history of a mental disorder); and Prior conviction of a crime.

  • We will not discriminate against you in the provision of services or in any other manner, on the grounds of Age, Ancestry, Color, Criminal Conviction, Familial Status, Lawful Source of Income, Learning Disability, Marital Status, Mental Disorder, National Origin, Physical Disability, Race, Religion, Mental Retardation, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Use of a Guide Dog, or on any other grounds specified by federal or state law or regulation.

  • Employment Discrimination In most agreements, there are two (2) types of discrimination laws that the employer will want to be exempt from, Federal and State discrimination laws which cover: Disability; Race; Creed; Color; Sex; Sexual Orientation; Religion; Age; National origin; or Ancestry.

  • Neither the Union nor the Employer in carrying out their obligations under this Agreement shall discriminate in matters of hiring, training, promotion, transfer, lay-off, discharge or otherwise because of race, colour, Ancestry, place of origin, religion, family status, physical or mental disability, age (19+), sex, sexual orientation, criminal convictions not directly related to employment, political belief, or marital status.


More Definitions of Ancestry

Ancestry means one’s family descent.52
Ancestry means a person’s forebears, lineage, or their line of familial descent. See Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019).
Ancestry means the country, nation, tribe or other identifiable group from which one descends. “Arrest/Conviction Record” means information indicating a person was questioned, arrested, charged or
Ancestry means an individual’s perceived or actual birthplace, community, descent, family, heritage, parentage and inherited social class, origin or status. “Caste” means an individual’s perceived position in a system of social stratification on the basis of inherited status. “A system of social stratification on the basis of inherited status” may be characterized by factors that may include, but are not limited to, inability or restricted ability to alter inherited status; socially enforced restrictions on marriage, private and public segregation, and discrimination; and social exclusion on the basis of perceived status.
Ancestry means a person who can trace their direct lineage to the pre-colonial contact Carcross/Tagish First Nation;
Ancestry means a person’s forebears, lineage, or their line of familial descent.
Ancestry means the respondent’s self-identification of the respondent’s origin or descent, “roots,” heritage, or place where the respondent or the respondent’s parents or ancestors were born.