We all have many different ancestries, not just one.
Some ancestries were listed more often than in the past, including Arab and sub-Saharan African.
One question asked people to write in up to two ancestries that defined their background.
People of those ancestries were rounded up, arrested and investigated by the US.
We've become alienated from our Indigenous and British ancestries and nearest neighbours, Asia.
They already know the plotlines of the books better than their own ancestries.
There is a fundamental dissonance in the term "African-American," two feuding ancestries conjoined by a hyphen.
"There are clear differences between people of different continental ancestries," said Marcus W. Feldman, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University.
Despite their distinct genetic ancestries, African and Eurasian golden jackals look so much alike that most scientists classified them as the same species.
Both were born in 1953, the youngest in families of boys; both had strong-willed mothers, who had married husbands with foreign ancestries of whom their families disapproved.
According to the 2011 census, some 140 linguistic, cultural or ethno-religious groups are represented in the Australian population with more than 300 ancestries.
