Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ancestry

Ancestry ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Compare Old French ancesserie. See Ancestor.]

1.
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Addison
2.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.