Bible Dictionaries
Ancestry

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

(2):

(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ancestry'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/ancestry.html. 1828.