Ms. Frimer, on the other hand, tells of ancestral connections irrevocably severed.

They aligned with the Iroquois in New York, because of their ancestral connection.

I thought perhaps an ancestral connection would account for your command of the family tree.

The person had no ancestral connections with the families they sponsored.

During the last 40 years or so, it has been fashionable to deride these ancestral connections as 'the old boy network.'

Kennedy's claims of ancestral connections to this group have been strongly disputed.

It could also provide further support for an ancestral connection between dinosaurs and birds, as many scientists have theorized.

Cameron had ancestral connections to the area.

But contemporary Indian tribes, supported by some scholars, have argued that they have an ancestral connection to these cultures.

Endel Ruberg encouraged a greater sensitivity to nature and to our ancestral connections with the earth.