The communities were largely settled by people of the same ethnic ancestry and religious faith.
People of mixed-race have numerous ethnic ancestries to draw from.
Any of these tests can be used to some degree for recent genealogy or for ethnic ancestry.
Reflecting their ethnic diverse ancestry, there are many local stories about the origins of these people.
The Australian census does not classify people according to race, only ethnic ancestry.
It only began counting all people by ethnic ancestry since the 1980 census, though.
On the 2000 Census, residents self-identified with a variety of ethnic ancestries.
Hair colour and texture can be a sign of ethnic ancestry.
He used the different last name as a way to obscure his Lebanese ethnic ancestry.
Today a majority of mixed-race Brazilians do not really know their ethnic ancestry.