The centrist heritage traces directly to the late Michel Rocard, a Mitterrand Prime Minister of clear social-democratic (as opposed to straight socialist) tendencies, who is generally thought to be the best President France never had — though some would bestow that honor on the center-right Édouard Balladur.
Yes, some would want to note that their heritage traces back to England, Spain, Ecuador, Morocco, Vietnam, India, Poland, or Micronesia.
He told HuffPost his heritage traces back to people from the very clans who lived on the land where British settlers first set foot in Sydney.
In 2007, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy collaborated with the Equus Survival Trust to collect DNA samples and photo-document the largest herd in South Carolina, considered to be the largest remaining herd, with a heritage tracing back to the American Civil War.
Aardvark Straws was owned until recently by Precision Products, which finds its heritage traced back to the original paper straw patent in the U.S. The anti-plastic straw movement has been good for the paper straw business, especially Aardvark's heavy-duty straws, for which demand has been high.
The story of Dolezal "passing" for a different race quickly went viral on Friday after her parents told a local news station that their daughter, who had publicly cited her African lineage, is actually of Czech and German heritage – with "traces of Native American ancestry".
The parents of Rachel Dolezal, 37, an academic and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Spokane, Washington, said in an interview this week that their daughter has been misrepresenting herself as an African American, while actually having German and Czech heritage with traces of Native American ancestry.
Better still, hop on a guided Canadian canoe trip from Cotehele's quay and delve deeper into the Cornish mining world heritage site, traced by Cornwall and Devon's watery border.
"The project is based on a very simple idea: Instead of waiting for people of Irish heritage to trace their roots, we go the other way," said Mike Feerick, who has been leading the charge to rekindle ties between the Irish and their diaspora.
In addition to its Hungarian and Romanian heritage, Transylvania retains traces of a Saxon (German) cultural tradition dating back to the arrival in the Middle Ages of a population of German speakers.
But, in fact, its heritage can be traced to Tre Scalini in the Piazza Navona in Rome, in 1945.
