If a dancer is good, she suggests purely and superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny -- the continuum of mankind.

We know from Gildas that he was of high birth, and had Roman ancestry ; he was presumably a Romano-Briton, rather than a Roman from elsewhere in the empire, though it is impossible to be sure.

A dividing issue is whether a person is " Folkish ", meaning that an emphasis on ancestry and ancestor worship is a part of their belief system.

Bocce ( sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie ) is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

For instance, genetic studies of African-American people show an ancestry that is on average 17 – 18 % European.

A statistical comparison of various alternative hypotheses has shown that universal common ancestry is significantly more probable than models involving multiple origins.

The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

This trait, however, is absent in the large New England coyotes, which are thought to have some wolf ancestry.

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

The size of the diaspora is demonstrated by the number of people around the world who claim Irish ancestry ; some sources put the figure at 80-100 million.

The cross of Saint Andrew is a reminder of the ministry of each person and the importance of evangelism, and recalls the denomination's Scottish Presbyterian ancestry.

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that ".. nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.

Its ancestry is thought to be species related to Aegyptopithecus, Propliopithecus, and Parapithecus from the Fayum, at around 35 million years ago.

The unity of the nation is to be based upon suprapersonal connections of ancestry and culture through a totalitarian state that seeks the mass mobilization of the national community through discipline, indoctrination, physical training, and eugenics.

The fascist view of a nation is of a single organic entity which binds people together by their ancestry and is a natural unifying force of people.

A great deal of information is available for British ancestry with growing resources for other ethnic groups.

Connick, Jr .' s father is a Catholic of Irish ancestry.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

In 1932 a number of Heydrich's enemies began to spread rumours of his alleged Jewish ancestry.

Genealogies attribute Mamikonian ancestry to Marinos ; he is an alleged son of Artavazd Mamikonian, who was head of the House in the 770s.

Just prior to Codreanu's 1938 trial, his origins were the subject of an anti-Legionary propagandistic campaign organized by the authorities, who distributed copies of a variant of his genealogy which alleged that he was of mixed ancestry, being the descendant of not just Ukrainians, Germans, and Romanians, but also Czechs and Russians, and that several of their ancestors were delinquents.

This so-called Baghdad Manifesto was read out in Friday mosques throughout the ‘ Abbasid domains accusing the Fatimids of Jewish ancestry also because of Al-Hakim ’ s alleged Christian mother he was accused of over sympathizing with non-Muslims and that he gave them more privileges than they should have been given under Islamic rule such accusations where manifested through poetry criticizing the Fatimids and that eventually led to the persecution of non-Muslims from 1007 till 1012.

In 1931 Hitler ordered the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) to investigate the alleged rumours regarding his ancestry, they found no evidence of any Jewish ancestors.

* Mischling – used in reference to an individual with alleged partial Jewish ancestry ; some were treated as full-blooded Jews, other as " Aryans " but subject to various restrictions.

Some also see it as a step towards identifying Native Hawaiians as an indigenous people to preserve for them specific legal rights based on ancestry ; some also see it as the beginning of a process to provide compensation or reparation to native Hawaiians for alleged past injustices.

Rumors appearing on various Catholic or sedevacantist websites and magazines alleged that Malachi Martin had Jewish ancestry on account of ancestral descent from Iberian Jews migrating to Ireland and Great Britain in the 15th century, and alleged him being an Israeli spy because of his first name, Malachi, after a Hebrew prophet and his extensive travels in the Levant.

The book " If You're A Wee Bit Irish: a chart of old Irish families collected from folk tradition " by William Durning ( 1978 ) recounts an alleged ancestry of Caoilte back to Adam.

Their children were majority white by ancestry ; Jefferson's alleged children by Sally Hemings were seven-eighths white.

" There was a family joke about an alleged Chinese ancestor who " didn't stay on his railroad job ," but there is no record of any Chinese ancestry.

Koestler did not see alleged Khazar ancestry as diminishing the claim of Jews to Israel, which he felt was based on the United Nations mandate and not on Biblical covenants or genetic inheritance.

United Peoples Party leader Mick Beddoes alleged in September 2005 that persons of multiracial ancestry were being encouraged by electoral officials to register on the indigenous communal roll, rather than the General Electors ' roll.

General electors and even Indo-Fijians with some distant indigenous ancestry were being asked to register as indigenous voters, on the bases of false claims that doing so would entitle them to membership of the Native Land Register, he alleged.

Members of the Creek ( Muscogee ) Nation in Oklahoma around 1877 ; they include men with some European and African ancestry.

Several hypotheses have been advanced, including links to ornithodirans like Scleromochlus, an ancestry among the basal archosauriforms like Euparkeria, or among the prolacertiformes ( which include gliding forms like Sharovipteryx ).

As a result of these discoveries, the new order Cetartiodactyla has been proposed to include the members of Artiodactyla and Cetacea, to reflect their common ancestry ; however, strictly speaking, this is merely a matter of nomenclature, since it is possible simply to recognize Cetacea as a subgroup of Artiodactyla.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Offa's ancestry is given in the Anglian collection, a set of genealogies that include lines of descent for four Mercian kings.

Their members now include people with ancestry of British, Spanish, German, Italian, Native American, Métis and French Creole settlers.

This number does not include many Black Bermudians with White Portuguese ancestry, and obscures also that some of the Portuguese immigrants were Blacks from the Cape Verde Islands.

The largest ancestry groups in Northampton County include: African American ( 36 %), English American ( 15 %), German ( 7 %), Irish ( 6 %) and Italian ( 3 %)

The largest ancestry groups in Lee County include: English ( 14 %), Irish ( 11 %), German ( 9 %), and Scots-Irish ( 3 %).

The largest ancestry groups in Webster County include African ( 21 %), English ( 19 %), Irish ( 15 %), German ( 4 %) and Scots-Irish ( 2 %)

Major ancestry groups reported by Lake Arthur residents include:

Major ancestry groups reported by Hope Mills residents include Black or African American-18 %, German-13 %, Irish-10 %, English-8 %, Scots-Irish-4 %, Italian-3 %, Scottish-3 %, Puerto Rican-3 %, French-2 %, American Indian tribes, specified-2 %, Polish-2 %, Mexican-2 %, European-1 %, Other Hispanic or Latino-1 %, Korean-1 %, Lumbee-1 %, Norwegian-1 %, West Indian ( excluding Hispanic groups )-1 %, Dutch-1 %, French Canadian-1 %, Cherokee-1 %

The largest ancestry groups in Jacksonville, Oregon include: German ( 19 %), English ( 18 %), Irish ( 11 %), Scottish ( 4 %) and Italian ( 4 %).

Major ancestry groups reported by Homer City residents would include: 18 % German, 17 % Italian, 11 % Irish, 9 % Polish, 7 % Slovak, 7 % English, 5 % Dutch, 3 % Scots-Irish, 3 % Scotch, 2 % Hungarian, 1 % Swedish, 1 % Ukrainian, 1 % French ( except Basque ), 1 % Pennsylvania German, 1 % Croatian, 1 % Welsh, 1 % Russian, 1 % Norwegian, 1 % Slovene, and 1 % Slavic.

Major ancestry groups reported by South Williamsport residents include:

Major ancestry groups reported by Elkton residents include:

As a result of these population changes, the formal and common understandings of what defines Asian American have expanded to include more of the peoples with ancestry from various parts of Asia.

Major ancestry groups reported by Ellwood City residents include:

The Communist government also attempted to improve the treatment of Manchu people ; some Manchu people who had hidden their ancestry during the period of KMT rule thus became more comfortable to reveal their ancestry, such as the writer Lao She, who began to include Manchu characters in his fictional works in the 1950s ( in contrast to his earlier works which had none ).

Other Mexican states inhabited by people with some African ancestry, along with other ancestries, include Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Yucatán.

Originally, only women from Tralee were eligible to compete, in the early 1960s it was extended to include any women from Kerry, and in 1967 it was further extended to include any women of Irish birth or ancestry.

The seventy electorates will include seven Māori electorates specially set up for people of Māori ethnicity or ancestry who choose to place themselves on a separate electoral roll.