1. ancestors
I can trace my ancestors back 200 years.
That tribe worships its ancestors.
My name links me with my ancestors.
My ancestors hoped to find political asylum.
Our ancestors developed massive jaws as a result of constant combat.
Our family has some distinguished ancestors.
The reason our hair is brown is that it enabled our monkey ancestors to hide amongst the coconuts.
Their clothes are quite like those of our ancestors.
Our ancestors used animals to name the years of people's births as their lives were closely connected to these animals.
I was surprised to find out that our ancestors were of Indian origin.
The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.
I don't know who my ancestors are. Our papers got lost during the Flood.
The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait.
Before the conquest by the Arabians, the majority of the Persians were Zoroastrians, but there were also Jews and Christians. So, who could imagine today that Iranians have Jewish or Christian ancestors?
In fact, a group of their ancestors peopled a continent on the planet Earth about 250 000 of your Earth years ago.