Sentence examples for ancestry back from inspiring English sources

In fact, many islanders traced their ancestry back five generations, as their cemeteries bore witness.

Kennedy traced his ancestry back to Venice by way of his mother's family, the Fitzgeralds.

"How many people can trace their ancestry back to the 17th century, let alone a thousand years?" Dr. Hammer said.

"We know there were multiple dispersals out of Africa, but we can trace our ancestry back to a single one".

Mayor Boughton, 43, takes pride in the city, where he can trace his ancestry back 300 years.

The plan has prompted fear among the people of Yumingzui, many of whom trace their ancestry back hundreds of years.

He can trace his Virginia ancestry back to the seventeenth century, yet he came late to Southern food.

The founding families can trace their ancestry back well over a hundred years, and practise their own sort of discrimination.

The Quarles traced their ancestry back to Francis Quarles, famous Jacobean poet, who wrote "A Feast for Wormes".

His father, Frederick Josiah Bradlee Jr., known as "B," could trace his American ancestry back through 10 generations of Bradlees.

She said I should wash it down with Moxie, the regional soft drink that traces its ancestry back to 1840.