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• n  someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• No one disputes that this competing ancestor is 6 million years old and thus more ancient than Ardipithecus.
• His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• Meet your newfound ancestor, a chimplike forest creature that stood up and walked 5.

• ascendant
• ascendent
• antecedent
• root

• descendant

News & Articles

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• Rex monument to Obama ancestor monument damaged
  Clayton County Commissioner Sonna Singleton said she cried Monday when she saw how apparent vandalism had damaged a monument honoring an ancestor of First Lady Michele Obama.
  June 15, 2013 - Clayton News Daily
• Monument to Obama Ancestor Toppled
  Monument to ancestor of Michelle Obama pushed from foundation in suburban Atlanta        
  June 11, 2013 - ABC News
• Monument to Michelle Obama ancestor vandalized in Georgia
  ATLANTA, June 11 (UPI) -- A monument dedicated to an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama was pushed off its foundation block by vandals, authorities in the town of Rex, Ga. said.
  June 11, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Lynne Cheney in USA Today
  This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ...... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick's and Barack Obama,Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.
• Herbie Hancock in Herald Times Reporter
  I cried a lot watching this,said Hancock, speaking by telephone from his Los Angeles studio. "It just made me think about the connection that we all have from our common ancestor."
• Vice President Dick Cheney in Reuters India
  Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ...... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."