The phrase "ancestors whose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to ancestors in relation to a specific characteristic or action that they possess or have done.
Example: "I often think about my ancestors whose sacrifices paved the way for my success."
Alternatives: "forebears who" or "ancestors that".
QUESTION FROM GRAHAM BURGESS: With a name like that, I thought you were descended from Norwegians!! HENDRIK HERTZBERG: My mother had some ancestors whose last name was "Hendricks".
She said: "This agreement is for those of us whose identity, whose culture, whose ancestors, whose whole being, is bound to their lands.
The Mossi venerate their ancestors, whose spiritual presence both validates their claims to their land and provides a major mechanism of social control.
Using sage, cedar and tobacco as offerings, the chief asked for blessings from ancestors, whose spirits were brought to the lodge in the form of heated rocks.
Queen Victoria was not amused by this towering symbol of the rackety Georgian ancestors whose image she was trying to obliterate.
Many American families have passed down stories of ancestors whose new life began with a jump at port and a swim to shore.
The wonderful trans actress Hari Nef plays Tante Gittel, a mysterious ancestor whose pearl ring has been passed down to Maura's children.
Above it, on a bulletin board, is a homemade family tree that traces her connections to an ancestor whose description of life in a nineteenth-century New England village she has fashioned into verse.
Scientists investigating the seventh pandemic have traced the origin of modern V. cholerae isolates to the Bay of Bengal and a common El Tor ancestor whose existence was dated to 1827 1936.
Fig. 1 Humans and lizards inherited appendages with similar structures from a common ancestor whose limbs also had this structure.
After 40 years of searching, researchers can finally put a new face on a mysterious human ancestor whose skull was discovered 40 years ago in Kenya.
