ancestral records
Lineage paper trail
Ancestral records are documents that trace family lineage—birth certificates, marriage licenses, census data, immigration papers, and similar materials.
Genealogists and family historians compile ancestral records to establish who their forebears were: She spent months digging through ancestral records to find her great-grandmother's birthplace.
- birth certificateOfficial record of arrival
- family treeChart of ancestors
- family BibleHeirloom scripture with genealogy
- heirloomsObjects passed through family lines
- diariesPersonal daily records
genealogy · lineage · maiden name · photographs · DNA test · Ellis Island · ship manifests · letters · military records · land deeds · customs · wills · church records · handwritten · mitochondrial DNA · heritage · immigration records · paper trail
- family recordsbirth certificates, birth certificate, family trees, death certificate, birth records
- Family Heritagesurnames, lineage, ancestral lineage, family trees, pedigree
- Vietnamese ancestryancestors, family trees, Nguyen, bloodlines, clans
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- museum termspaintings, sculptures, exhibits, gallery, artifacts
ancestral recordsoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
oral history · folk memory · word of mouth · verbal accounts
ancestral recordsliving relatives