This assertion and belief has caused some controversy as current genetic studies show that the principal ancestors of the Native Americans are Asian, not Israelite.

The database also links each language to its principal ancestor allowing the user to follow the development of various languages.

He is a Sky Father, spirit of thunder and one of the principal ancestors of the Yoruba people.

The Empedoclean element of fire is perhaps the principal ancestor of later concepts such as phlogiston and caloric.

This model was also implicitly endorsed in the introduction to the Book of Mormon, which noted that Lamanites are the "principal ancestors of the American Indians."

Xikixa is the principal ancestor of the book's characters, and the importance of ancestors is everywhere.

Son, a primary African-Spanish fusion music, is the principal ancestor of salsa, Latin New York's modern popular music.

This statement was later changed to say "among the principal ancestors".

And finally, the Wentworth letter re-establishes Joseph Smiths teachings that the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.

It was the homestead of Wyomarus de Greenwode, believed to be the principal ancestor of British Greenwoods.