ancestry in the PONS Dictionary

ancestry Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

she is of Polish ancestry
тя е от полски произход
nothing is known about his ancestry
потеклото му не е известно

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People of black and white ancestry number at 3,551, and make up 1.0% of the population.
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An individual dog is identified as a member of a breed through proof of ancestry, using genetic analysis or written records of ancestry.
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Traditionally, if a student has a paternal lineage at the college, he will join the house of his ancestry on becoming part of the school.
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A better way to model ancestry is to think in terms of genes flowing through a river of time.
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The term often overlapped with heraldry, in which the ancestry of royalty was reflected in their coats of arms.
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Evolutionary hierarchy suggests breeds should genetically cluster into groups sharing recent common ancestry.
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States followed this with more stringent laws classifying more persons as black based on traceable or any ancestry.
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They classified as black any person with any black ancestry, regardless of how small.
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