The word "ancestral" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been passed down through multiple generations of family or idea/trait that has been inherited from one's ancestors. Example sentence: I was born with a strong desire to explore, something I believe is an ancestral trait.
Many people were turned away but will get another chance to view Mandela on Thursday and Friday before he is buried in his ancestral village of Qunu on Sunday.
Afghans first began moving to Pakistan following the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979, and generations have grown up without ever having visited their ancestral homeland.
Vladimir Putin has told Crimea's Tatars that they must accept that their future lies with Russia, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of their mass deportation from their ancestral homeland.
The singer offers up ancestral horror stories of genocide in Turkey next to thoughts about work ("what's going on with mycareer") and the obligatory smattering of selfies (recent classics include "Me as Mona Lisa" and "me as a BLUR").
It expresses ancestral emotions of loss, shame and terror.
Obama will be visiting County Offaly to see his ancestral family roots, before a state visit to London when he will meet the 85-year-old woman who has unexpectedly become an Irish media star.
The assailant is a black man thought to be in his late 30s, and groundbreaking forensic tests have pinpointed his ancestral DNA to the Windward Islands.
Genetic information can reveal all kinds of things about an individual: their likelihood of disease, their ancestral background, their familial relationships and perhaps even their susceptibility to injury.
But Hamlet is also the favourite in south-west England, where ancestral internecine conflict and grievance is generally – though I may be wrong – less pronounced.
It's housed in a remarkable ancestral home with high whitewashed walls, pink-trimmed windows and cool, green gardens, offering the ideal Goan shopping experience.
Fear of rejection, persecution, exclusion, or, conversely, of betraying your ancestral origins".
