DNA analysis further determined that modern Jews of the priesthood tribe - "Cohanim" - share a common ancestor dating back about 3,000 years.

Most Palestinian Christians nowadays see themselves as culturally and linguistically Arab Christians with ancestors dating back to the first followers of Christ.

Seymour Stedman was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 4, 1871, the son of ethnic Anglo-Saxon parents with ancestors dating back to the time of the American Revolution.

These include material of Neanderthal ancestors dating back 800,000 years.

A new study suggests that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years.

Charibert, a nobleman in Neustria is the earliest recorded ancestor of the family, dating before 636.

This also reflects the close evolutionary link between the human and canine parasites, which probably have a common ancestor dating back to when humans and dogs first started living closely together.

Guru Vashishta had mentored fifty kings of the Suryavansha dynasty before Dasaratha, every single one of his ancestors dating back to clan founder Ikshvaaku and even beyond to Manu Lawmaker, the first Arya.

It was speculated that the Vulcan people might have ancestors dating back to the war-torn planet that existed some five hundred thousand years gone by.

Human strains have a most recent common ancestor dating back to 7,000 (95% interval: 5,287-9,270) to 10,000 (95% interval: 6,305-16,681) years ago.