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Example sentences for: ancestry

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Fur-trading coureurs de bois settled down with Indian wives, and today more than a few Québécois proudly trace their ancestry back to native peoples with a tell-tale birthmark on the hip, high cheekbones, or long sleek black hair.
Brahmins, the priestly caste, fill many of the top posts in the universities and administration; many Indian Army officers can trace their ancestry to the proud Kshatriya warrior caste; business is dominated by the merchant or Vaishya caste; and Shudras till the land.
They share a common ancestry with inhabitants of the Indonesian archipelago.
Ninety-three percent were white and 7% were either black, Hispanic or of Middle Eastern ancestry.
He describes his research expeditions to Munich and rural Austria, his quixotic searches for long lost documents pertaining to Hitler's ancestry and psychology.