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.
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 country, nation, tribe, or other identifiable group from which one descends.
Examples of Ancestry in a sentence
Ancestry informative marker sets for determining continental origin and admixture proportions in common populations in America.
Employees subject to NVIT’s continued right to exercise a preference for hiring people of Aboriginal Ancestry.
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) is tracking the progress through HUD’s annual point-in-time (PIT) data.
Characterizing Race/Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort.
Italian American = 100% of First Ancestry and 50% of Second Ancestry for 051 (Italian) and 068 (Sicilian).
More Definitions of Ancestry
Ancestry means the citizenship, country of origin, or national origin.
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 one’s family descent.52
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 the ethnic or national group from which you are descended. It is quite acceptable to base your answer on your grandparents’ ancestry. Persons of mixed ancestry who do not identify with a single group should answer with their multiple ancestry. Persons who consider their ancestry to be Australian may answer ‘Australian’ (Kunz and Costello 2003: 7).